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100 1 _aArdel, Henri,
_d1863-1938
245 1 2 _aL'heure décisive
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2025-06-15
508 _aLaurent Vogel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Books project.)
520 _a"L'heure décisive" by Henri Ardel is a novel written in the late 19th century. Set in Parisian salons and modest apartments, it follows Denise Muriel, a gifted young singer from a ruined bourgeois family, as she weighs the perilous allure of the theater against her pride, independence, and need to support her own. Her magnetism captivates the refined clubman Bertrand d’Astyèves, while a passionate composer and a clear‑sighted woman of letters recognize her rare talent and character. The opening of the novel presents a brilliant salon at Mme Arnales’s, where Denise debuts Vanore’s Poèmes sylvestres and stuns a fashionable audience; Bertrand, struck by her voice and reserve, escorts her briefly to the buffet and learns hints of her reluctance to pursue the stage. Denise, paid discreetly and eager to escape the air of condescension, returns home to a cramped flat, where her bitter mother, easygoing father, and schoolboy brother reveal a family strained by past ruin and present economies; alone on her balcony, she longs for love yet vows to keep her integrity. At the start of the next scene, Bertrand visits the salon of Mme Claude Champdray, Denise’s loyal friend, hoping to see her; Denise arrives, and in a restrained, incisive exchange she shows a lucid, skeptical spirit, sympathy for the struggling, and a stubborn independence that complicates everyone’s designs for her future. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cParis: Plon, 1899
653 _aFrench fiction -- 19th century
856 4 _uhttps://books.google.com/books?id=VvoMAQAAIAAJ
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76307
999 _c117032
_d117032