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Jean de La Brète (1858–1945)

Autor(a) de My uncle and my curé

8 Works 47 Membros 2 Críticas

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Obras por Jean de La Brète

My uncle and my curé (1889) 33 exemplares
Aimer quand meme (1909) 6 exemplares
Un Vaincu (1893) 3 exemplares
La Solitaire 1 exemplar
Les Tournants 1 exemplar
Conte bleu 1 exemplar

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Nome canónico
Brête, Jean de la
Nome legal
Brète-Cherbonnel, Alice de La
Outros nomes
Brête, Jean de la
Data de nascimento
1858
Data de falecimento
1945
Sexo
female
Nacionalidade
Frankrijk
Local de nascimento
Saumur, Frankrijk
Local de falecimento
Breuil-Bellay, Maine-et-Loire, Frankrijk

Membros

Críticas

Jean de La Brète was the pen-name of French writer Alice Cherbonnel, who had a big hit in 1889 with her first novel [Mon oncle et mon curé] — a book that has been translated, made into a film, and reprinted frequently over the years. She published many other novels and stories over the course of her long career, most of which seem to have been forgotten.

Conte bleu ("fairy-tale"), the main work in this volume, is a jolly little romantic comedy in epistolary form. The handsome young poet Antoine has had to sell off the family estate to pay off his late father's debts, and is now living incognito in a Paris garret, where his humble clerical job pays barely enough to keep him in postage stamps (of which he uses a great many...), let alone bread. Then one day he receives an anonymous donation of pâté — a kind lady has heard about the sad, handsome starving poet and spontaneously sent him a food parcel. Naturally, it turns out that the anonymous lady (who doesn't know his true identity) is his childhood sweetheart Chantal, who has married and been widowed since they last saw each other. Much enjoyable confusion results, happily stirred up by their various correspondents, especially the old Marquise de Lambelle, whose heart is still firmly in the 18th century, and who clearly models herself on an intriguing Marquise from a much better-known epistolary novel...

The Conte runs out with a hundred pages still to fill, so the publisher has added two shorter works. Amour lointain is in diary form, the story of an 18th-century young lady from Virginia who goes to Paris to be painted by Kneller and fall in love with the wrong English milord. It's supposed to be a tragic tale, but the charm and spontaneous bounce of Miss Evelyn's diary entries makes it difficult to take the sad ending seriously. Contes de Grand'mère is a somewhat over-sweetened tale of a young girl who talks to the flowers.

I can't think of any good reason why anyone would go out and look for this, unless you were writing a thesis about French romantic fiction ca. 1900, but it was fun to dip into. And Cherbonnel does handle the technical complexities of epistolary form very smoothly. The male nom-de-plume seems a bit pointless, though: it looks as though she has long since given up the pretence and is writing straightforwardly as a woman for a mostly female readership, but she's stuck with the name because of her early success.
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thorold | Jul 28, 2021 |
Reine vit aux Buissons entre sa tante, Mme de Laval, vieille femme acariâtre qui lui fait la vie dure, et son curé qui est son précepteur et son conseiller. Le hasard veut qu'un accident d'auto fasse arrêter le cousin de Reine, Paul de Comprat, aux Buissons. Reine, enchantée, veut faire durer le séjour de Paul et démolit sa voiture à coups de pioche. Les deux jeunes gens se plaisent, mais ne se l'avouent qu'a moitié. Sur ces entrefaites, Paul repart chez son oncle, M. de Pavolles. Reine, de plus en plus malheureuse, s'enfuit des Buissons et se réfugie au château de Pavolles. Là, elle rencontre la fille de son oncle, Blanche, et apprend que celle-ci est fiancé à Paul. Grand désespoir...
Ce joli roman «à l'eau de rose», qui a pour cadre la province profonde, a en réalité été écrit par une jeune femme, Jean de la Brète étant le pseudonyme d'Alice Cherbonnel. Portée à l'écran, cette histoire fut un des grands succès cinématographiques de l'entre-deux guerres.
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vdb | Dec 28, 2011 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
8
Membros
47
Popularidade
#330,643
Avaliação
½ 2.3
Críticas
2
ISBN
4
Línguas
1