La Maternelle by Léon Frapié
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"La Maternelle" by Léon Frapié is a novel published in 1904 that won the Prix Goncourt. After losing her dowry and fiancé to family ruin, educated Rose is forced to work as an attendant at a Paris kindergarten serving 150 working-class children. Despite the menial tasks and desperate circumstances, she forms deep bonds with the neglected children who turn to her as a mother figure. The novel offers a critical portrait of
poverty and public education's role in shaping obedience rather than liberation. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Frapié, Léon, 1863-1949 |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Steinlen, Théophile Alexandre, 1859-1923 |
| Title | La Maternelle |
| Original Publication | France: Librairie universelle, 1908. |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Maternelle Wikipedia page about this book: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Maternelle_(roman) |
| Credits | Claudine Corbasson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 70.4 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | French |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | French fiction -- 20th century |
| Subject | Children -- France -- Fiction |
| Subject | Education, Preschool -- France -- Fiction |
| Subject | Teachers -- France -- Fiction |
| Subject | Working class families -- France -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 71143 |
| Release Date | Jul 8, 2023 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 338 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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