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050 4 _aPQ
100 1 _aFréhel, Jacques,
_d1861-1918
245 1 0 _aBretonne
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2025-06-09
508 _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)
520 _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.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cParis: Plon, 1891
653 _aFrench fiction -- 19th century
856 4 _uhttps://polona.pl/preview/a27852b9-bc95-4688-8897-9d82ef6a4987
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76256
999 _c116981
_d116981