The mild scholar Monsieur Bergeret endures domestic betrayal and small-town politics, continuing the 'Contemporary History'.
Books mentioned in The Wicker-Work Woman (10)
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes: “the place in _Don Quixote_ where Sancho complains of being obliged to endure a never-ending series of misfortunes”
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius: “Bergeret was re-reading the meditations of Marcus Aurelius”
The Aeneid by Virgil: “Your Renaissance scholars always depicted the author of the _Æneid_ with the features of a sage”
Cymbalum Mundi by Bonaventure des Périers: “the _Cymbalum_ of Despériers”
Les Serées by Guillaume Bouchet: “the _Serées_ of Guillaume Bouchet”
Les Matinées by Nicolas de Cholières: “the _Matinées_ of Cholière”
Milesian Tales by Aristides of Miletus: “This school of short stories starts with the tales of Aristeides of Miletus, a writer of the second century B.C.”