TY - BOOK AU - Mirbeau,Octave TI - La 628-E8: Comprenant en annexe le chapitre intégral "Balzac" AV - D PY - 2017/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850 KW - Europe -- Description and travel KW - Automobile travel -- Europe N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_628-E8 Wikipedia page about this book: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_628-E8; Release date is 2017-04-10; Le départ -- Bruxelles -- Chez les Belges -- Anvers -- En Hollande -- La faune des routes -- Bords du Rhin; Produced by Laura Natal Rodriguez and Marc D'Hooghe at Free Literature (back online soon in an extended version, also linking to free sources for education worldwide ... MOOC's, educational materials,...) (Images generously made available by the Internet Archive.); Original publication data not identified N2 - "La 628-E8" by Octave Mirbeau is a narrative published in 1907. This unclassifiable work blends travel memoir, fantasy, and social commentary as Mirbeau journeys through France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany in his Charron automobile. Neither true novel nor conventional travelogue, the book celebrates both the automobile as a transformative force and the promise of Franco-German friendship for European peace. The narrative also includes controversial chapters about Balzac's death that scandalized readers and were removed after initial printing. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54528 ER -