Les creux-de-maisons by Ernest Pérochon

"Les creux-de-maisons" by Ernest Pérochon is a novel published in 1912. The story follows Séverin Patureau, a day laborer who returns from military service with nothing but determination. He marries Delphine, and together they work tirelessly on farms in the Bocage region, dreaming of renting their own smallholding. To save money, they live in a "creux de maison," a squalid, half-underground dwelling. The novel exposes the brutal poverty of agricultural workers during France's Belle Époque. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Pérochon, Ernest, 1885-1942
Title Les creux-de-maisons
Original Publication France: Plon, 1921.
Note Wikipedia page about this book: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Creux_de_maisons
Credits René Galluvot (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)
Reading Level Reading ease score: 80.8 (6th grade). Easy to read.
Language French
LoC Class PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Subject France -- Fiction
Subject Rural poor -- Fiction
Subject Agricultural laborers -- Fiction
Category Text
eBook-No. 70534
Release Date
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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