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100 1 _aMirbeau, Octave,
_d1848-1917
245 1 0 _aSébastien Roch
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2026-04-08
508 _aChuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)
520 _a"Sébastien Roch" by Octave Mirbeau is a novel written in the early 20th century. It follows a gentle provincial boy whose vain, status-seeking father sends him to a prestigious Jesuit college in Brittany, opening a critique of class pretension, clerical authority, and the fragility of innocence. The opening of the novel paints the celebrated Jesuit school at Vannes and the Breton setting as fertile ground for molding young souls, then shifts to Pervenchères, where the pompous quincaillier M. Roch dreams of grandeur for his son. After initial rejection, he wins admission by invoking a “martyred” ancestor and inflating family glory, while delivering bombastic lessons about hierarchy and the Jesuits’ power. We meet Sébastien as a carefree, unformed child suddenly shaken by separation, drawn at once to and afraid of the unknown; he drifts between bleak domestic scenes, the tender, precocious warmth of his neighbor Marguerite, and the corrosive mockery of his aunt. As departure nears, he grows disillusioned with his father’s hypocrisy, endures fussy trousseau rites and endless speeches, and finally leaves: a hushed station farewell, a surprisingly youthful, affable Jesuit, the awkward father left on the platform, and the boy’s uneasy settling into a first-class compartment as the journey begins. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cParis: Librairie Charpentier et Fasquelle, 1906
653 _aFrance -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Fiction
653 _aAbused children -- France -- Psychology -- Fiction
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/sbastienrochro00mirbuoft/page/n3/mode/2up
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78398
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