Monsieur Bergeret à Paris: Histoire Contemporaine by Anatole France
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"Monsieur Bergeret à Paris: Histoire Contemporaine" by Anatole France is a novel published in 1901. It is the fourth volume in a tetralogy satirizing French society under the Third Republic. The work follows university professor Lucien Bergeret, whose mediocre domestic and intellectual life drives him to seek refuge in his favorite bookshop. There, he engages in philosophical discussions about justice, government, and scandal, expressing pessimistic views on humanity and history while escaping
his unhappy marriage. France employs his characteristic ironic style to explore contemporary politics and society. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | France, Anatole, 1844-1924 |
|---|---|
| Title | Monsieur Bergeret à Paris: Histoire Contemporaine |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histoire_contemporaine_(Anatole_France) |
| Credits |
Produced by Sergio Cangiano, Carlo Traverso, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. 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: 74.0 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | French |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | Paris (France) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century -- Fiction |
| Subject | Middle class -- France -- Paris -- Intellectual life -- 19th century -- Fiction |
| Subject | Antisemitism -- France -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 7268 |
| Release Date | Jan 1, 2005 |
| Last Update | Feb 11, 2015 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 409 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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