La Pergaud, Louis 1882-1915 creator text utu 2018 monographic fr 1 online resource : multiple file formats "La Guerre des Boutons: Roman de ma douzième année" by Louis Pergaud is a French novel published in 1912. Set in the late 19th-century countryside of Franche-Comté, it chronicles the relentless "war" between rival gangs of boys from two neighboring villages, Longeverne and Velrans. Led by the cunning Lebrac, the children wage battles with sticks, stones, and fists. Captured enemies face ultimate humiliation: stripped of their buttons, buckles, and laces, they must return home in tatters to face parental wrath. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Buttons_(novel) Wikipedia page about this book: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Guerre_des_boutons_(roman) Release date is 2018-02-26 Produced by Claudine Corbasson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr) Original publication data not identified War stories Villages -- France -- Fiction French fiction -- 20th century Gangs -- Fiction PQ Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/56646 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/56646 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134315.0 56646