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
Last Update Jan 4, 2021
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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