Nuoren rouvan kesä by Cécile Gilson
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Nuoren rouvan kesä by Cécile Gilson is a novel written in the early 20th century. In a clear, sunlit first-person voice, it follows Marceline, a young mother in the countryside, as she balances domestic life with a stern industrialist husband and an enlivening new friendship with her neighbor Nicolas de Pennes. Key figures include her fretful cousin Pascal, her children, Maxime the status-conscious husband, and the neighboring de Pennes household, with Christine’s
fragility and Nicolas’s openheartedness sharpening Marceline’s own hunger for joy. The opening of the novel traces Marceline’s playful banter with Pascal (who acts like her conscience), her tender scenes with the children in a spring-bright garden, and a recollection of her guarded courtship with Maxime. A first visit to the old manor at Saulnaye introduces Nicolas’s tact, Christine’s languor, and a salon conversation that contrasts easy grace with Marceline’s stiff marital small talk; a later dinner with Nicolas’s lively sister Fancy and her war-scarred husband underscores warmth, loss, and class differences. Maxime’s return each night reveals his controlling habits, political tirades, and pride in new wealth, setting his heaviness against Marceline’s expansive happiness. When Pascal warns that her daily visits to Saulnaye look dangerous, she seeks out Nicolas; together they reaffirm a candid, “clean” friendship, then plunge back into walks, tennis, and harvest days, while Christine recedes and Fancy departs. The section closes with summer in full blaze, Marceline buoyed by joy yet faintly aware—through Pascal’s doubts and small frictions—of the fragile line she is treading. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Gilson, Cécile, 1880-1923 |
|---|---|
| Translator | Hämeen-Anttila, Väinö, 1878-1942 |
| Uniform Title | Le merveilleux été. Finnish |
| Title | Nuoren rouvan kesä |
| Original Publication | Finland: Arvi A. Karisto Osakeyhtiö, 1930. |
| Credits | Tuula Temonen and Johanna Kankaanpää |
| Language | Finnish |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | Belgian fiction (French) -- Translations into Finnish |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 78834 |
| Release Date | Jun 9, 2026 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 168 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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