A legend of French literature: the three-line pieces published anonymously by Félix Fénéon in the Parisian newspaper Le Matin under the heading "Miscellaneous News." With a bittersweet pen and laconic sharpness, these accounts leave the reader teetering between laughter and horror, bewilderment and pleasure, and form not only an extraordinary literary treasure of the Belle Époque but also a timeless encyclopedia of the everyday madness of human circumstances and mishaps: tragic, comic, grotesque.