Madame Thrse | |
Auhtor: Erckmann Chatrian | |
| Language: french Published: 1910 Genres:fiction and literatureDownloads: 253 eBook size: 341Kb Review by Bob Tobias, June 2010 Rating: (*****) Copyright: Public Domain in the U.S. Please check the copyright status in your country. | |
Summary of the Book 'Madame Thrse':
Erckmann-Chatrian was the name used by French authors mile Erckmann (1822-1899) and Alexandre Chatrian (1826-1890) nearly all of whose works were jointly written. Both Erckmann and Chatrian were born in the dpartement of Moselle in the Lorraine region in the extreme north-east of France. They specialised in military fiction and ghost stories in a rustic mode applying to the Vosges mountain range and the Alsace-Lorraine region techniques inspired by story-tellers from the Black Forest. Life-long friends who first met in the spring of 1847 they finally quarreled during the mid-1880s after they did not produce any more stories jointly. During 1890 Chatrian died and Erckmann wrote a few pieces under his own name. Tales of supernatural horror by the duo that are famous in English include The Wild Huntsman (tr. 1871) The Man-Wolf (tr. 1876) and The Crab Spider. These stories received praise from the renowned English ghost story writer M. R. James. Partly as a result of their republicanism they were praised by Victor Hugo and mile Zola and fiercely attacked in the pages of Le Figaro. Gaining popularity from 1859 for their nationalistic anti-militaristic and anti-German sentiments they were well-selling authors but had trouble with political censorship throughout their careers. Generally the novels were written by Erckmann and the plays mostly by Chatrian. A festival in their honour is held every summer in the town of Erckmanns birth Phalsbourg (German Pfalzburg) which also contains a military museum exhibiting editions of their works.
Excerpts from the Book 'Madame Thrse':
... part unnecessary, unreasonable, and brutal. They lived scandalous lives utterly regardless of their responsibility to their people. Their courts were ...
... la gazette, mais ils aimaient d'en entendre la lecture pour rien. Que de fois je me suis rappel le grand Karolus, le plus grand usurier[4] du pays, ...
... la salle, je voyais l'oncle Jacob assis prs de la table, tandis qu'un homme vigoureux, gros favoris, tait install dans le fauteuil et dchiquetait un ...
... place. En arrire.. En mme temps, un rgiment de Croates passa devant chez nous comme la foudre. Ils s'lanaient la poursuite des Rpublicains mais ...
... quand on a mis le feu dans la rue, et que[2] les Rpublicains sont partis, je l'ai revu derrire. -Bless. fit la femme d'une voix si faible, qu'on pouvait ...
... les jours quelque chose de nouveau. N'est-ce pas, mon pauvre Scipio. Combien de fois notre pre et les deux ans ne se sont-ils pas rjouis de te voir monter ...
... madame Thrse d'une voix attendrie sortir par un temps pareil pour secourir un malheureux, qui ne pourra peut-tre jamais reconnatre vos services. -Eh. ...
... dire, s'cria-t-il en se relevant, c'est que la bataille de Kaiserslautern n'est pas aussi dcisive 66 qu'on le croyait, et que votre bataillon n'a ...
... vous a dit cela. s'cria l'oncle dsol j'avais pourtant bien dfendu. -Ah. ne lui faites pas de reproches, monsieur le docteur, dit-elle, ...
... o toute l'Europe se levait contre elle et, o il lui fallait tenir quatorze armes sur pied. Les yeux de Koffel, en entendant cela, se remplirent de ...
... dans le pole de sa chambre pour la premire fois de l'hiver je pensai qu'il avait l'ide de veiller, et je finis par m'endormir ondment. Neuf heures ...
... me demanda diffrents renseignements sur le pays d'une faon si claire, qu'on aurait cru qu'il connaissait les choses bien mieux que moi. Naturellement ...
... arriver les vritables dfenseurs de la patrie malheureusement la plupart suivaient la route de Wissembourg Mayence, laissant Anstatt sur leur gauche, ...
... the low growls of a dog. 2. =a=, they. 3. =il tombe mal=, he hits it badly, he doesn't have luck on his side this time. 4. =elle a reu son ...
... more. 3. =ventre terre=, cf. page 12, note 2. VOCABULARY. Words identical in form and meaning in French and English, as well as a few others the ...
... to fade. =dteler=, to unharness. =dtour=, m., turning, corner circuit. =dtourner=, to turn aside. =dtraquer=, to put out of order. =dtresse=, ...
... external. =exterminer=, to destroy. =extraordinaire=, unusual. =extrmement=, very. =extrmit=, f., extreme. =face=, f., front, face =en ...
... of a drum. =pantalon=, m., pantaloons. =papier=, m., paper. =paquet=, m., bundle, package, pouch. =par=, by, through, in, from, with =- un ...
... to prolong =se -=, to extend, continue. =promener (se)=, to walk, stroll about. =promesse=, f., promise. =promettre=, to promise. =propos=, ...
... flock. =troupeau=, m., flock, herd. =trousse=, f., case of instruments = leurs trousses=, at their heels, in pursuit. =trouver=, to find =se ...