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La Mare Au Diable
''La Mare au Diable'' (''The Devil's Pool'') is an 1846 novel by George Sand. Background The novel is first in a series of four pastoral novels by Sand, based on her childhood; it was followed by '' François le Champi'' (1847–1848), ''La Petite Fadette'' (1849), and ''Les Beaux Messieurs de Bois-Doré'' (1857). Plot The Père Maurice is talking to Germain, his 28-year-old young son-in-law, about Germain taking a new wife. Germain has been a widower for two years, and his wife left behind three young children. (Père means Father and is used in ancient oral Language.) Maurice wants Germain to go visit his friend, Père Leonard, at a farm about half a day's ride away, to visit Leonard's daughter, a rich widow who is looking to remarry. Her name is Catherine Guerin and it appears she is a good person. Germain does not really want to remarry, but Maurice tells him that two years is long enough to be in mourning, that he is grateful for Germain having been good to his daughter, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Sand
Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin de Francueil (; 1 July 1804 – 8 June 1876), best known by her pen name George Sand (), was a French novelist, memoirist and journalist. One of the most popular writers in Europe in her lifetime, being more renowned than both Victor Hugo and Honoré de Balzac in England in the 1830s and 1840s, Sand is recognised as one of the most notable writers of the European Romantic era, with more than 70 novels to her credit and 50 volumes of various works including novels, tales, plays and political texts. Like her great-grandmother, Louise Dupin, whom she admired, George Sand stood up for women, advocated passion, castigated marriage and fought against the prejudices of a conservative society. Personal life Childhood Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin, the future George Sand, was born on 1 July 1804 in Paris on Meslay Street to Maurice Dupin de Francueil and Sophie-Victoire Delaborde. She was the paternal great-granddaughter of the Marshal of Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François Le Champi
Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin de Francueil (; 1 July 1804 – 8 June 1876), best known by her pen name George Sand (), was a French novelist, memoirist and journalist. One of the most popular writers in Europe in her lifetime, being more renowned than both Victor Hugo and Honoré de Balzac in England in the 1830s and 1840s, Sand is recognised as one of the most notable writers of the European Romantic era, with more than 70 novels to her credit and 50 volumes of various works including novels, tales, plays and political texts. Like her great-grandmother, Louise Dupin, whom she admired, George Sand stood up for women, advocated passion, castigated marriage and fought against the prejudices of a conservative society. Personal life Childhood Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin, the future George Sand, was born on 1 July 1804 in Paris on Meslay Street to Maurice Dupin de Francueil and Sophie-Victoire Delaborde. She was the paternal great-granddaughter of the Marshal of Fra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Petite Fadette
''La Petite Fadette'', also published in English under the titles ''Little Fadette. A Domestic Story'' (1849), ''Fadette. A Domestic Story'' (1851) and ''Little Fadette'' (1967), is an 1849 in literature, 1849 novel written by French novelist George Sand, born Amantine Dupin. Sand wrote the rural story together with ''La Mare au Diable'' and ''François le Champi'' in the 1840s as she returned from Paris to the countryside of Châteauroux. The novel is one of Sand's best known today. Plot The novel takes place in the 19th-century French countryside. The parents of Landry and Sylvinet, identical twin brothers, who are respectable and relatively rich farmers, do not follow the advice that is given at the twins' birth to keep separating and distinguishing them from each other while they are still young. Consequently, the twins grow up together. Although they are opposites, with Landry the less emotional, more conventionally strong twin, and Sylvinet, the less physically strong and mor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Beaux Messieurs De Bois-Doré
''Les Beaux Messieurs de Bois-Doré'' is an 1857 French historical novel by George Sand. History The work was first published as a serial in ''Le Progrès Illustré'' in 1857, then was revived in volume by A. Cadot in 1858. The novel tells a series of romantic and adventurous adventures in the context of religious oppositions during the reign of Louis XIII. Adaptations ; Theatre The work was adapted to the stage by Sand and Paul Meurice. The premiere took place on 26 April 1862 at the Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique. ; On television * 1976: ''The Gallant Lords of Bois-Doré'', French miniseries A miniseries or mini-series is a television series that tells a story in a predetermined, limited number of episodes. "Limited series" is another more recent US term which is sometimes used interchangeably. , the popularity of miniseries format h ... directed by Bernard Borderie, with Georges Marchal, and Novels by George Sand 1857 French novels French-language novels ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosa Bonheur
Rosa Bonheur (born Marie-Rosalie Bonheur; 16 March 1822 – 25 May 1899) was a French artist known best as a painter of animals ( animalière). She also made sculpture in a realist style. Her paintings include '' Ploughing in the Nivernais'', first exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1848, and now in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, and '' The Horse Fair'' (in French: ''Le marché aux chevaux''), which was exhibited at the Salon of 1853 (finished in 1855) and is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Bonheur was widely considered to be the most famous female painter of the nineteenth century. Bonheur was openly lesbian. She lived with her partner Nathalie Micas for over 40 years until Micas's death, after which she began a relationship with American painter Anna Elizabeth Klumpke. Early development and artistic training Bonheur was born on 16 March 1822 in Bordeaux, Gironde, the oldest child in a family of artists.Kuiper, Kathleen"Rosa Bonheur" ''Encyclopædia Britann ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ploughing In The Nivernais
''Ploughing in the Nivernais'' (french: Labourage nivernais), also known as ''Oxen ploughing in Nevers'' or ''Plowing in Nivernais'',D'Anvers 91. is an 1849 painting by French artist Rosa Bonheur. It depicts two teams of oxen ploughing the land, and expresses deep commitment to the land; it may have been inspired by the opening scene of George Sand's 1846 novel ''La Mare au Diable''. Commissioned by the government and winner of a First Medal at the Salon in 1849, today it is held in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. Depiction The Nivernais, the area around Nevers, was known for its Charolais cattle, which were to play an important role in the agricultural revolution that took place in the area in the nineteenth century. Rosa Bonheur gained a reputation painting animals, and ''Ploughing in the Nivernais'' features twelve Charolais oxen, in two groups of six. On a sunny autumn day they plough the land; this is the ''sombrage'', the first stage of soil preparation in the fall, which o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Literary Digest
''The Literary Digest'' was an influential American general interest weekly magazine published by Funk & Wagnalls. Founded by Isaac Kaufmann Funk in 1890, it eventually merged with two similar weekly magazines, ''Public Opinion'' and '' Current Opinion''. History Beginning with early issues, the emphasis was on opinion articles and an analysis of news events. Established as a weekly newsmagazine, it offered condensations of articles from American, Canadian and European publications. Type-only covers gave way to illustrated covers during the early 1900s. After Isaac Funk's death in 1912, Robert Joseph Cuddihy became the editor. In the 1920s, the covers carried full-color reproductions of famous paintings. By 1927, ''The Literary Digest'' climbed to a circulation of over one million. Covers of the final issues displayed various photographic and photo-montage techniques. In 1938, it merged with the ''Review of Reviews'', only to fail soon after. Its subscriber list was bought by ''T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1846 French Novels
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