The Coffee Pot

“The Coffee Pot [La Cafétière]” by Théophile Gautier

In this early 19th-century Fantastic tale, a young man sees the objects in his bedchamber spring to life, and people emerge from portraits to dance. He meets a beautiful woman named Angela. Is it a dream or a ghostly visitation?

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(English) Gautier, Theophile. "The Coffee Pot." The Oxford Book of French Short Stories. Ed. Elizabeth Fallaize. Oxford UP, 2002.

(French) Gautier, Théophile. “La Cafétière.” Récits fantastiques. [Fantastic Tales]. Paris: Flammarion, 1981.