Germaine
By Edmond About
2007
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Edmond Francois Valentin About, ne le 14 fevrier 1828 a Dieuze (Moselle) et mort le 16 janvier 1885 a Paris, est un ecrivain, journaliste et critique d'art francais, membre de l'Academie francaise. Le 1er janvier 1853, les domestiques de l'hotel de Sanglie a Paris voient la duchesse Mlle Germaine, malade et dont le pere est ruine, aller vendre sa bague au mont-de-piete. Mme de Chermidy lui fait epouser Don Diego pour l'argent. Ils vont en Italie ou Germaine se refait une sante...."
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Author
Edmond About
Author · 5 books
Edmond François Valentin About was a French novelist, publicist and journalist. His book on Greece, La Grèce contemporaine (1855) was an immediate success. In Tolla (1855), About was charged with drawing too freely on an earlier Italian novel, Vittoria Savelli (1841). This aroused prejudice against him, and he was the object of numerous attacks. The Lettres d'un Bon Jeune Homme, written to the Figaro under the signature of "Valentin de Quevilly", provoked more animosities. During the next few years, he wrote novels, stories, a play (which failed), a book-pamphlet on the Roman question, many pamphlets on other subjects of the day, innumerable newspaper articles, some art criticisms, rejoinders to the attacks of his enemies, and popular manuals of political economy, L'A B C du travailleur (1868), Le progrès (1864). His more serious novels include Madelon (1863), L'Infâme (1867), the three that form the trilogy of the Vieille Roche (1866), and Le roman d'un brave homme (1880) - a kind of counterblast to the view of the French workman presented in Zola's Assommoir. He is best remembered as a farceur, for the books Le nez d'un notaire (1862); Le roi des montagnes (1856); L'homme à l'oreille cassée (1862); Trente et quarante (1858); Le cas de M. Guérin (1862).
