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Expéditions autour de ma tente: Boutades militaires

Chapter 35: TABLE
By Joseph Damase Chartrand
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A series of short, humorous military sketches and reflections written in a conversational voice. The narrator, a soldier, catalogs camp life—his modest tent, equipment, routines, comrades, and oddities of army administration—mixing playful self-deprecation, satirical observations, and digressive anecdotes. Chapters adopt a voyage-around-my-room conceit to transform everyday boredom into comic essays that alternate description, moralizing asides, and absurdist logic, often aiming to provoke a deliberate yawn as a comic device. Scenes range from practical descriptions of gear to whimsical meditations on fatigue, food, and the symbolic presence of objects such as the sabre.

TABLE

PRÉFACE
       I.—La tente.
      II.—L'auteur.
     III.—Le bidon.
      IV.—Les godillots.
       V.—Le képi.
      VI.—La musette.
     VII.—Le havre-sac.
    VIII.—La pipe.
      IX.—Le revolver.
       X.—Le sabre.
      XI.—Digression patriotique.
     XII.—La gamelle.
    XIII.—Le quart.
     XIV.—Les guêtres.
      XV.—Les vacances.
     XVI.—Combat homérique.
    XVII.—Funèbre souvenir.
   XVIII.—Pêche miraculeuse,
     XIX.—Souvenir du jeune âge.
      XX.—Un page d'amour.
     XXI.—Chasse à l'affût.
    XXII.—Réminiscences du passé.
   XXIII.—Combat du schott Tigri.
    XXIV.—La flûte.
     XXV.—Une colonne.
    XXVI.—Mélanges.
   XXVII.—Une colonne campée.
  XXVIII.—Mes prisons.
    XXIX.—Enlèvement frauduleux.
     XXX.—En permission.
Apologue.

______________________________________________________________ PARIS, TYPOGRAPHIE E. PLON, NOURRIT ET Cie, RUE GANANCIÈRE, 8.

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