Carmen - Prosper Mérimée (Premier chapitre)

Subscribe to listen to a new audio reading every day:    / @lecteurdomicile   "[...] In Spain, a cigar given and received establishes relations of hospitality, as in the Orient the sharing of bread and salt. My man was more talkative than I had hoped. Moreover, although he claimed to be a resident of the partido of Montilla, he seemed to know the country rather poorly. He didn't know the name of the charming valley where we were; he couldn't name any nearby village; finally, when I asked him if he hadn't seen destroyed walls, large tiles with edges, or sculpted stones in the vicinity, he confessed that he had never paid attention to such things. On the other hand, he showed himself to be an expert on horses. He criticized mine, which wasn't difficult; then he He gave me the genealogy of his own horse, which came from the famous stud farm of Cordoba: a noble animal, indeed, so resistant to fatigue, according to his master, that he had once covered thirty leagues in a day, at a gallop or a full trot. In the middle of his tirade, the stranger stopped abruptly, as if surprised and angry at having said too much. "It's because I was in a great hurry to get to Cordoba," he continued with some embarrassment. "I had to ask the judges for a trial..." As he spoke, he looked at my guide Antonio, who lowered his eyes. [...]" YOUTUBE CHANNELS COOKING WITH BENOIT:    / @cookingwithbenoit   TRAVEL I LOVE:    / @traveljadore   WEB TRAVEL J'ADORE: https://www.traveljadore.com/ SUPPORT: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/lecteuradom