02888cam a22003133u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000340011324500130014726400510016030000470021133600260025833700260028433800360031050000310034650801800037752018080055753400450236565300350241085600670244585600430251299900190255576256UtSlPG20260610134750.0mcr n260607r20251891utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7afr2iso639-1 4aPQ1 aFréhel, Jacques,d1861-191810aBretonne 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2025  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aRelease date is 2025-06-09  aLaurent Vogel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Polona digital library)  aBretonne by Jacques Fréhel is a novel written in the late 19th century. Set in a small Norman town battered by an iron winter, it follows the Breton Trégar-Creachmeur women—Jeffik and her younger sister Anne—who, under their devout, ailing mother, run the newly installed telegraph office while enduring provincial scorn and precarious poverty. Around them orbit a petty, cruel schoolmaster, his neglected centenarian aunt, a sly concierge-family, and a young Norwegian lodger whose arrival hints at change and nascent romance. The book reads as a regional social portrait that blends satire of local mores with lyrical evocations of sea, marsh, and wind.  The opening of the novel paints the town's harsh season and its people: boys sliding on frozen ditches, bourgeois hunters boasting, and a one-eyed commissary mocked for fishing frogs—signs of the locals’ contempt for “outsider” functionaries. The telegraph post is given to widows’ daughters, bringing the Trégar-Creachmeurs—with their sea-worn heirlooms—into the drafty municipal château, where Jeffik (20) and Anne (9) gaze out at the river traffic and dream. We meet the sour schoolmaster Boscher, his money-making boarding scheme, the gentle factotum Saussaie, and the shady concierge Ledormeur; a Norwegian youth, Arvid Swevenmor, arrives as Boscher’s boarder. A nocturnal crisis strikes when Boscher’s very old aunt Perpétue is found hanging from a window ledge; she is rescued by Arvid and the girls’ mother, only for Boscher and his wife to respond with callousness. The section closes with Jeffik’s dream-lit reverie and a sharp sketch of Ledormeur’s petty graft and carousing, setting the social tensions and emotional stakes that will drive the story. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cParis: Plon, 1891  aFrench fiction -- 19th century4 uhttps://polona.pl/preview/a27852b9-bc95-4688-8897-9d82ef6a498740uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76256  c116981d116981