George Sand
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Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin, later Baroness Dudevant, best known by her pseudonym George Sand was a French novelist. She is considered by some a feminist although she refused to join this movement. She is regarded as the first French female novelist to gain a major reputation. - [Wikipedia]
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La Petite Fadette (Classiques Francais)
Set in the French countryside of George Sand’s childhood and narrated in the unique voice of a Berrichon peasant, La Petite Fadette is a beloved 1848 novel about identical twin brothers and Fadette, the mysterious waif with whom they both fall in love. The brothers, Landry and Sylvinet, belong to a highly respected farm family. When young Landry meets Fadette, whose very name suggests that she is a witch, he is captivated by the girl despite her lowly status and disreputable family. Sylvinet soon follows suit. Fadette’s relationship with the twins defies the patriarchal norms of French society as well as the expectations of the village, resulting in a tale of love, courage, and clever strategy winning out over superstition and prejudice. Provided by Penn State University Press
Valentine
Devil's Pool
"When Germain - a shy but handsome widower - is sent by his father-in-law to find himself a wife, he sets out on his journey with a heavy heart. The prospective spouse is said to be rich, with land and a tidy dowry. But Germain fears for the fate of his three angelic children - and for the state of his own bruised heart. Everything changes during his voyage - through a dark wood and around a haunted marsh - when Germain falls passionately in love with an impoverished young shepherdess. Should he follow his heart, and woo the girl he now loves? Or please his family by marrying a rich but disdainful widow?" "A love song to the French countryside - a romance of two simple hearts - The Devil's Pool is above all a paean to an antique language and way of life which, even by 1844, was being eroded by industrialisation and the inexorable expansion of a national identity."--BOOK JACKET.
Francois le Champi
Nous revenions de la promenade, R*** et moi, au clair de la lune, qui argentait faiblement les sentiers dans la campagne assombrie. C'etait une soiree d'automne tiede et doucement voilee ; nous remarquions la sonorite de l'air dans cette saison et ce je ne sais quoi de mysterieux qui regne alors dans la nature. On dirait qu'a l'approche du lourd sommeil de l'hiver chaque etre et chaque chose s'arrangent furtivement pour jouir d'un reste de vie et d'animation avant l'engourdissement fatal de la gelee : et, comme s'ils voulaient tromper la marche du temps, comme s'ils craignaient d'etre surpris et interrompus dans les derniers ebats de leur fete, les etres et les choses de la nature procedent sans bruit et sans activite apparente a leurs ivresses nocturnes.