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De la ville au moulin
En voulant s’interposer lors d’une dispute qui oppose ses parents, Annette Beaubois est blessée à la hanche et demeure boiteuse. Elle part pour le moulin de son oncle, bientôt suivie par ses frères et sœurs que ses parents, en train de se séparer, lui confient. À vingt ans, elle consent à vivre avec un ami de son frère, Valère, qui sombre dans l’alcoolisme, et la trompe. Enceinte de ses œuvres, elle le quitte néanmoins pour aller accoucher, à Paris, d’un enfant qui ne survit pas. Dans la capitale, elle retrouve sa famille, puis, la guerre terminée, elle reconnaît Valère dans un grand blessé. Elle est prête à lui redonner sa chance.
171 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 1926
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Marguerite Audoux
80 books1 followerMarguerite Audoux (July 7, 1863 at Sancoins, Cher – January 31, 1937 at Saint-Raphaël, Var) was a French novelist.
Marguerite Donquichote, who took her mother's name, Audoux, in 1895, was orphaned by age three, following the death of her mother and abandonment by her father. She and her sister Madeleine initially lived with an aunt but ultimately spent nine years in the orphanage at Bourges. In 1877, Andoux was put to work as a shepherdess and farm worker in the region of Sologne. There, she fell in love with a local boy, Henri Dejoulx, but his parents would not permit them to marry.
Audoux moved to Paris in 1881. Desperately poor, she found occasional work as a seamstress and made ends meet with whatever menial labour could be found. She bore a stillborn child in 1883; the difficult pregnancy and labor left her permanently sterile.
In Paris, she took custody of her niece, Yvonne. It was Yvonne who at age sixteen inadvertently set in motion her aunt's literary career: Yvonne, while prostituting herself (without Audoux's knowledge) in the Parisian neighborhood of the Halles, met a young man named Jules Iehl. Iehl, who also wrote under the pen name Michel Yell, was moved by the young woman's impossible situation and accompanied her home, where he met Audoux. Iehl and Audoux would remain romantically involved until 1912.
Yell introduced Andoux to the Parisian intelligencia--a group that included Charles-Louis Philippe, Léon-Paul Fargue, Léon Werth and Francis Jourdain. He also encouraged her to write her memoirs. The memoirs fell into the hands of celebrated author Octave Mirbeau and proved so compelling that Mirbeau immediately arranged to have them published.
Though success and critical acclaim followed quickly on the heels of the December 1910 publication of Audoux's memoirs, her next book was ten years in the making. The Studio of Marie-Claire, published in 1920, was merely a modest success; none of her subsequent novels--From the Mill to the Town (1926), The Fiancee (1932), and finally Soft Light, (1937)--matched the success of her bestseller debut.
After her death in January 1937, the novelist was buried in Saint-Raphaël, not far from the ocean she loved.
Marguerite Donquichote, who took her mother's name, Audoux, in 1895, was orphaned by age three, following the death of her mother and abandonment by her father. She and her sister Madeleine initially lived with an aunt but ultimately spent nine years in the orphanage at Bourges. In 1877, Andoux was put to work as a shepherdess and farm worker in the region of Sologne. There, she fell in love with a local boy, Henri Dejoulx, but his parents would not permit them to marry.
Audoux moved to Paris in 1881. Desperately poor, she found occasional work as a seamstress and made ends meet with whatever menial labour could be found. She bore a stillborn child in 1883; the difficult pregnancy and labor left her permanently sterile.
In Paris, she took custody of her niece, Yvonne. It was Yvonne who at age sixteen inadvertently set in motion her aunt's literary career: Yvonne, while prostituting herself (without Audoux's knowledge) in the Parisian neighborhood of the Halles, met a young man named Jules Iehl. Iehl, who also wrote under the pen name Michel Yell, was moved by the young woman's impossible situation and accompanied her home, where he met Audoux. Iehl and Audoux would remain romantically involved until 1912.
Yell introduced Andoux to the Parisian intelligencia--a group that included Charles-Louis Philippe, Léon-Paul Fargue, Léon Werth and Francis Jourdain. He also encouraged her to write her memoirs. The memoirs fell into the hands of celebrated author Octave Mirbeau and proved so compelling that Mirbeau immediately arranged to have them published.
Though success and critical acclaim followed quickly on the heels of the December 1910 publication of Audoux's memoirs, her next book was ten years in the making. The Studio of Marie-Claire, published in 1920, was merely a modest success; none of her subsequent novels--From the Mill to the Town (1926), The Fiancee (1932), and finally Soft Light, (1937)--matched the success of her bestseller debut.
After her death in January 1937, the novelist was buried in Saint-Raphaël, not far from the ocean she loved.
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November 16, 2020
Qui se souvient de Marguerite Audoux couronnée par le Prix Femina en 1910? Cette gamine abandonnée par ses parents placée comme bergère qui montera à Paris, deviendra couturière, croisera la route d'Octave Mirbeau ...
de la ville au moulin est paru en 1925. Annette a voulu séparer ses parents lors d'une dispute plus violente que les autres, sa hanche est fracturée. Si elle peut remarcher elle reste boiteuse...Ses parents finissent par divorcer et Annette se retrouve en charge de ses frères et soeurs. Courageuse, attentive à leur bien-être elle trouve l'énergie pour faire face aux temps difficiles. Les années passent, elle a décidé de ne pas se marier pas question de revivre le cauchemar de son enfance mais la vie ....
Ce roman est d'une modernité ahurissante. Imaginez une femme refuser le mariage, refuser l'autorité d'un mari , gagner sa vie pour subvenir à ses besoins, vivre selon son coeur et hors des normes de la société et de l'Eglise. Passera t'elle à côté du bonheur? Arrivera t'elle à vivre selon ses aspirations ? Un texte qui se lit facilement, la nature est là omniprésente, les personnages prennent corps et âme sous nos yeux. La vie est difficile pour les petits, la guerre de 14 ne laissera pas de familles intactes. Un beau roman, une auteure à découvrir.
de la ville au moulin est paru en 1925. Annette a voulu séparer ses parents lors d'une dispute plus violente que les autres, sa hanche est fracturée. Si elle peut remarcher elle reste boiteuse...Ses parents finissent par divorcer et Annette se retrouve en charge de ses frères et soeurs. Courageuse, attentive à leur bien-être elle trouve l'énergie pour faire face aux temps difficiles. Les années passent, elle a décidé de ne pas se marier pas question de revivre le cauchemar de son enfance mais la vie ....
Ce roman est d'une modernité ahurissante. Imaginez une femme refuser le mariage, refuser l'autorité d'un mari , gagner sa vie pour subvenir à ses besoins, vivre selon son coeur et hors des normes de la société et de l'Eglise. Passera t'elle à côté du bonheur? Arrivera t'elle à vivre selon ses aspirations ? Un texte qui se lit facilement, la nature est là omniprésente, les personnages prennent corps et âme sous nos yeux. La vie est difficile pour les petits, la guerre de 14 ne laissera pas de familles intactes. Un beau roman, une auteure à découvrir.
June 1, 2024
Objectivement 4*, subjectivement un peu plus. J'ai été touchée par l'histoire sans pour autant être émue aux larmes (un peu comme la protagoniste ?) et j'ai beaucoup apprécié les images et métaphores de l'autrice qui étaient toujours très simples, mais qui marchaient. Certains y verrait quelque chose de trop simple et pas assez recherché, mais je vois plutôt ça comme aller a l'essentiel sans faire de fioritures. Belle découverte !
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