One character in this work concocts liquors and tries to sell one called the "currantina" and is outraged when another character declares he is leaving town.  
One character in this work concocts liquors and tries to sell one called the "currantina" and is outraged when another character declares he is leaving town.  In addition to the Polish pharmacist Marowsko, near the beginning of this work, a group of characters go on a fishing trip where one character tries to out-row the character manning the other side of the boat.  That character eventually leaves to become a ship's doctor on the Lorraine.  An offhand comment from a barmaid begins the psychological torment of the protagonist, and while on a shrimping trip, another character becomes engaged to Mademoiselle Rosemilly just as the protagonist suggests to his mother that all men are cuckolds.  FTP, name this novel in which Monsieur Marechal's inheritance reveals the infidelity of Madame Roland, a work of Guy de Maupassant.
One character in this work concocts liquors and tries to sell one called the "currantina" and is outraged when another character declares he is leaving town.  
Pierre and Jean or Pierre et Jean