Title: L'élixir du révérend père Gaucher

Title: L'élixir du révérend père Gaucher Title Record # 1772191
Author: Alphonse Daudet
Date: 1869-10-02
Type: SHORTFICTION [non-genre]
Length: short story
Language: French

Note: First published in Le Figaro, October 2, 1869.

Synopsis: Father Gaucher makes his monastery rich by creating a famous herbal liqueur which he spends every day brewing. But unfortunately for his religious principles, he himself finds its aroma irresistible and ends every day drunk and singing bawdy songs.

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Translations

Year	Language	Title
1917^ⓘContains no speculative elements (apart from Gaucher speaking of the liqueur's temptation as a "demon" which bewitches him).	English	The Elixir of the Rev. Father Gaucher
1959^ⓘTranslated by Ирина Татаринова / Irina Tatarinova.	Russian	Эликсир преподобного отца Гоше^?Eliksir prepodobnogo ottsa Goshe [as by Альфонс Доде^?Al'fons Dode Alphonse Daudet ]

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
The Evening Standard Book of Strange Stories	1934-00-00	ed. uncredited	Hutchinson		3/6^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).	1024	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
Рукопись, зарытая в саду Эдема^?Rukopis', zarytaya v sadu Edema	1989-00-00	ed. Наталья Полторацкая^?Natal'ya Poltoratskaya	Лениздат^?Lenizdat	5-289-00450-5		491	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	В. Б. Мартусевич^?V. B. Martusevich
Lettres de mon moulin	date unknown	Alphonse Daudet	Nelson (France) (Grande Collection Nelson #4)			283+ v	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll

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