La rôtisserie de la Reine Pédauque by Anatole France
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"La rôtisserie de la Reine Pédauque" by Anatole France is a historical novel published in 1893. Set in early eighteenth-century Paris, it follows young Jacques Ménétrier, son of a rotisserie owner, as he navigates an extraordinary education under the eccentric abbé Coignard. Their world includes drunken monks, loose-moraled chambermaids, and a delusional nobleman obsessed with alchemy and salamanders. When alchemical experiments go awry and a scandalous elopement implicates them, master and pupil
must flee their former lives in this witty pastiche of eighteenth-century novels. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | France, Anatole, 1844-1924 |
|---|---|
| Title | La rôtisserie de la Reine Pédauque |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_the_Sign_of_the_Reine_P%C3%A9dauque Wikipedia page about this book: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_R%C3%B4tisserie_de_la_reine_P%C3%A9dauque |
| Credits | Produced by Carlo Traverso, Vital Debroey and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 79.0 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | French |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | Bildungsromans |
| Subject | Egypt -- Fiction |
| Subject | Christian women saints -- Fiction |
| Subject | Mary, of Egypt, Saint -- Fiction |
| Subject | Picaresque fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 11645 |
| Release Date | Mar 1, 2004 |
| Last Update | Oct 28, 2024 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 376 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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