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100 1 _aRégnier, Henri de,
_d1864-1936
245 1 3 _aLe vrai bonheur
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aLes roses latines, 1
500 _aRelease date is 2025-11-24
508 _aLaurent Vogel (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica))
520 _aLe vrai bonheur by Henri de Régnier is a novella written in the early 20th century. The book examines the pursuit and fragility of happiness through an unconventional love affair set between Paris and the Italian lakes. Its likely topic is the perilous gap between romantic illusion and reality, as seen in a woman’s late-blossoming passion for a much younger man and the social, emotional, and moral tensions it creates. A Parisian narrator, drawn to eccentric circles, meets the charming Germaine de Gaillandre, a cultivated, superstitious woman separated from her husband and guided by a discreet fortune-teller, Mme Quittenard, who predicts future happiness. After the narrator’s absence abroad, he returns to learn that Germaine has fallen for an eighteen-year-old beauty, Jean de Querdrun, encountered in the painter Massot’s studio; they retreat to Stresa on Lake Maggiore, where Germaine worships him, and Jean, vain and gentle, lets himself be adored, even wearing her jewels. The narrator visits and sees a radiant idyll sustained by Germaine’s absolute faith. Two years later a telegram summons him: Jean has vanished—taking the pearls. With Mme Quittenard’s help, he is found in his old Latin Quarter flat, calmly resuming law studies and planning a conventional marriage, returning the jewels in tears for the lost necklace yet refusing to go back. The tale closes on a dry consolation: Germaine had her season of bliss, and, says the fortune-teller, for a lady the true happiness may be—at least—recovering her pearls. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cParis: Horizons de France, 1929
653 _aFrench fiction -- 20th century
830 0 _aLes roses latines, 1
856 4 _uhttps://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k9622419x
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77329
999 _c118049
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