Title : Memoirs of a Lower Breton Peasant - Jean-Marie Deguignet - book
Summary :
Jean-Marie Déguignet's "Memoirs" constitute a major social and human document on rural life in the 19th century. A man among men, he nevertheless had an exceptional destiny: a farm worker in the heart of Finistère, a soldier in Lorient, engaged in the Crimean and Italian wars of the Second Empire, witness to the catastrophic Mexican adventure, a tobacconist, a pauper in Quimper, dying in a hospice. The journal he kept throughout his life remains unequaled in the annals of time. It is that of a tormented man, an anticlerical and an anarchist slayer of conservatism. A prophet too, who foresaw the destruction of traditional societies. It is in this sense that his testimony, as gripping as an adventure novel, is also a saga of the human condition.
- EAN: 9782266107297
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