1 ancestor

Once, a banker asked Dumas, a famous French writer (1802-1870), "I heard that you are a quarter black, right?"

"I think so," Dumas said.

"What about your father?"

"Half black."

"Where's your father?"

"All black." Dumas replied.

"Excuse me, where is your great grandfather?" The banker asked the question to the end.

"apes." Dumas said solemnly.

"Are you kidding? How is this possible! "

"Really, it's an ape. Alexandre dumasfils said, "My family started with apes, and yours ended with apes. "

Plums worth 65438+ million francs.

1842, according to the judgment of the Seine Provincial Court, B.W. Kidu Mountain Castle was auctioned, and Dumas had to bid farewell to his home. When he left, Dumas handed a plate to a friend. There are two plums on the plate, and my friend chose one.

"You ate 65438+ ten thousand francs." Dumas shouted.

"65438+ million francs?"

"Yes, these two plums-all the property left to me by Du Ji Mountain ... I spent 200,000 francs to buy this plum ..."

3 enjoy it.

On one occasion, Dumas went to a restaurant in Germany for dinner. He wants to try the famous German mushrooms.

But the waiter couldn't understand his French. He had a brainwave, drew a mushroom on the paper and handed it to the waiter.

When the waiter saw it, he suddenly realized and flew away.

Dumas smiled and enjoyed himself. He thought, "My painting is not as vivid as my words, but it is good at last.". Ok! "

A quarter of an hour later, the waiter came back panting with an umbrella in his hand and said to him, "Sir, I found what you need!" " "

The story of writer Hugo:

1 shave off half.

Victor hugo, a French writer, is writing a work and is very nervous. But social activities take up a lot of his time. One day, he came up with a unique trick: shaving his hair and beard in half respectively. When relatives and friends come again, he points to his funny face and refuses social dating. When his hair grows back, his masterpiece will be successful.

2 Ask and answer skillfully

After Hugo wrote Les Miserables, he sent the manuscript to a publishing house. The manuscript didn't reply for a long time, so I drew a big "?" On the paper. Sent it to the publisher. Every few days, the publisher wrote back, and Hugo opened it. There was not a word on it, only a word "!" . He knew there was hope. Sure enough, his Les Miserables was published soon and was a great success.

3 pen dealer

Once, Hugo traveled abroad to the border, and the gendarmerie wanted to check the registration and asked him, "Name?" "Hugo." "What do you do?" "writing." "What do you do?" "pen." So the gendarmerie wrote in the register: "Name: Hugo; Occupation: selling pens. "

The story of the poet Heine:

1 counterattack traveler

Heine, a German poet, was a Jew and was often attacked for no reason. Once at a party, a traveler said to him, "I found an island." There are no Jews and donkeys on this island! " "Heine said quietly," it seems that only if you go to the island with me can you make up for this defect! " "

Two stones fell to the ground.

One day, Heine received a heavy letter from a friend that owed postage. He opened it and found a big bundle of wrapping paper with a small note on it: "I'm fine, don't worry!" " Your Mel. "A few days later, Meyer also received a heavy package from Heine, and he had to pay a large sum of cash when he received the package; It turned out that there was a stone in it with a note on it: "Dear Meyer, when I knew you were okay, the stone in my heart fell to the ground. "

3 Jiang

184 1 year, Heine married Eugénie, a salesgirl in a Parisian fur shop. This is an unfortunate combination. Eugénie is uneducated, stupid and ignorant, and extremely vain. Heine's love for her failed to enable her to overcome her shortcomings. When the poet died, he left her all his property on the condition that she should marry another person. "In this way, at least one person will regret my death." Heine explained.