Lettres galantes du chevalier de Fagnes

A narrator explains how a trove of eighteenth‑century gallant letters came into his hands after they were hurriedly hidden among family papers before a later war. He evokes visits to a serene provincial household, a portrait nicknamed Boulou‑Boulou, and the disruption and losses brought by conflict. Those framing memories alternate with the recovered correspondence, which together illuminate intimate manners, courtship customs, and the social atmosphere of the earlier century through personal exchanges and recollection.