The stories included in this book are selected from various books by the French writer Anatole France, who is considered one of the imams of French writers and a genius of thinkers in the modern era. Skepticism and sarcasm are highlighted in everything he wrote. He is suspicious of everything and ridicules everything. It is enough to go back to his four books, "Modern History," in which he criticized the parliamentary system in France, to see how this system is based, in his view, on hypocrisy, and how politicians change their principles when they move from the seats of parliament. To the seats of ministers, and how the lords of money and industry control the press as they control statesmen, and how they subject these and those to their greed and whims in exchange for filling their pockets and satisfying their bellies...