French Language Book Les morts qui parlent Vicomte By Eugene Marie de hotsell Vogue The Dead Who Talk 1910 Hernani Marion de Lorme By Victor Hugo

French Language Book Les morts qui parlent Vicomte By Eugene Marie de Vogue The Dead Who Talk 1910 Hernani Marion de Lorme By Victor Hugo

One is a Novel by popular French novelist, Vicomte de Vogue, first published in 1898. At the time of its first publication in serial form the end of chapter 10 caused a bit of a scandal. Rose Esther is portrayed as an alumna of the famous teacher training school in Fontenay, headed by Félix Pécaut whose lectures were greatly admired at the time by liberals and republicans. Rose sweeps the floor with “ce sirop de religion laïque” taught by hotsell Pécaut, and, as if to break even more radically with the high standards of this lay morality, offers herself sexually (“Prends-moi”) to Elzéar Bayonne, a politician who happens to be a relative. Many of the former girls of Fontenay were up in arms about this scene and for a while a minor battle was fought over this in several French newspapers and periodicals.

Paris, Nelson, 1910.

Binding: Original cloth binding. Giltstamped spine cover, in good antique condition,

1910 Les Morts qui parlent de Vogue Novel Fiction Literature France Controversy

The second book is titled "Hernani, Marion de Lorme by Victor Hugo. It was published in 1931 and is written entirely in French. Hernani is one of four French plays written by Victor Hugo. This particular play has five acts that open in Paris on February 25, 1830. It's remembered for the demonstrations which accompanied the premier and for being the inspiration for Verdi's opera Ernani.