Contents:1. Countess Rudolstadt . A new meeting with the dark-haired Consuelo is a great opportunity to plunge into the atmosphere of a gallant era full of danger and genuine passion, when people knew how to live in full force and die with a smile on their lips. 2. Melchior . Having traveled and made a fortune, the Breton Jam Locrist decided to marry his daughter to his nephew, the sailor Melchior, and make him the heir. On a voyage from the Malabar Coast to Brittany, young people learned love — and the power of rock. Cora. A provincial beauty has awakened a romantic passion in the heart of an impressionable postal official. What will be this love story - tragic or happy, sublime or comic? Metellus . Ten years of love affair of Count B. and Lady M. But the habit, the age difference, the inevitable signs of withering on the beautiful face of a friend cooled the passion of the count. Heart of Lady M. He wants to be comforted...5. Franois-Poddysh . The title character, brought up at an early age by a kind, but poor and illiterate woman, gets into the house of the miller Blanche. The boy takes under his care Madeleine, the wife of a miller, who protects him with all her might from the attacks of his mother-in-law, a drinking and evil old woman. Franois, who has grown up, does not want to be the cause of constant family strife, leaves the house and rushes to find work. Having achieved some success in life and in addition received a generous gift from his unknown mother, Franois returns to the widowed Madeleine to help her improve her health and arrange her material affairs. It all ends with the entry of the heroes into the marriage union: despite the age difference, they fell in love with each other as husband and wife.