La Becquée by René Boylesve
"La Becquée" by René Boylesve is a largely autobiographical novel published in 1901. A five-year-old boy narrates life on his great-aunt Félicie's estate in Touraine during the 1870s. The family lives off Félicie's hospitality, receiving "la becquée"—being fed and housed. But Félicie is dying, and her relatives worry selfishly about their inheritance rather than her health. She initiates young Riquet into estate management, hoping to secure the land's future while observing the
petit bourgeois manners around her. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Boylesve, René, 1867-1926 |
|---|---|
| LoC No. | 03012465 |
| Title | La Becquée |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Becqu%C3%A9e Wikipedia page about this book: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Becqu%C3%A9e |
| Credits | Produced by Sébastien Blondeel, Carlo Traverso, Pierre Lacaze and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at gallica.bnf.fr) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 81.9 (6th grade). Easy to read. |
| Language | French |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | French fiction -- 20th century |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 27296 |
| Release Date | Nov 19, 2008 |
| Most Recently Updated | Jan 4, 2021 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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