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Title: French men, women and books : a series of nineteenth-century studies
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Betham-Edwards, Matilda, 1836-1919
Subjects: French literature
Publisher: Chicago : A. C. McClurg
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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and none of the characters,except the doctors mother—ah! how lovingly doFrench novelists draw these maternal portraits !—arouses sympathy, but as a study of French life it isto be warmly commended. M. Boysleves novels are divided into two categories, the first dealing with middle-class life, one ofwhich has been translated into English. This isUEnfant a la Balustrade—The House on the Hill(Nutt), La Becquee having followed it as a sequel.Under the second head come stories of love andromance, Le Bel Avenir and Le Meilleur Ami. Anauthors favourites among his own works is alwaysan interesting point, M. Boysleves being the trans-lated story and the last two. M. Henry Bordeauxs novels are familiar toreaders of La Revue des Deux Mondes, in whichalso appeared La jeune fille Men elevee. Bothnovelists are in their prime, so that their readers mayhope for many more French novels to read, asthe two here outlined may safely be labelled. VII A GREAT PROSE EPIC, 1870-71THE BROTHERS MARGUERITTE
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Victor Mar(;ueritte (Faciui^ p. 155. A GREAT PROSE EPIC, 1870-71THE BROTHERS MARGUERITTE Sons of a splendid soldier, rendered fatherless bySedan, inheritors of a legend, what more naturalthan that Paul and Victor Margueritte should be-come the chroniclers of Vannee terrible, year ofbloodshed, devastation and fiercely combateddespair ? Appropriately is their first volume dedicated tothe memory of a father they were not too young toforget, and whose name will ever live in Frenchmilitary annals. Among the many dramatic in-cidents of the Franco-Prussian War, none are morestriking than the great cavalry charge, the last, sosay military authorities, that will ever be recorded,in which General Margueritte lost his life. Those who, like myself, witnessed the grandreview at Betheny near Rheims in honour of theCzar a few years ago, can realize such a spectacle,and a fearful one it is even when given as a gazing-stock, a mere parade. Upon that occasion 25,000foot and horse soldiers were mustered

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