The power of words / André Chamson -- A man's name / Louis Guillous -- Christine / Julian Green -- In a certain house / Pierre-Jean Jouve -- The wall / Jean-Paul Sartre -- The forge / Jean Prévost -- The corn dies / Jean Giono -- The proverb / Marcel Aymé -- Nanou the shepherdess / Marcel Jouhandeau -- The rape of Europa / Jules Supervielle -- Professor Darine / Marc Blancpain -- The fly / Jacques Perret -- Madame Parpillon's inn / Noël Devaulx -- The animals / Pierre Gascar -- The Armistice in Venice / Félicien Marceau -- The fashionable tiger / Jean Ferry -- The boa / Marquerite Duras -- In Tripolitania / Maurice Pons