Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog Project Gutenberg 2004-12-09 Public domain in the USA. 42 Desbordes-Valmore, Marceline 1786 1859 Desbordes-Valmore, Marceline Félicité Josèphe Desbordes-Valmore, Marceline Felicite Josephe Le Livre des Mères et des Enfants, Tome II E-text prepared by Suzanne Shell, Renald Levesque, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team "Le Livre des Mères et des Enfants, Tome II" by Marceline Desbordes-Valmore is a collection of stories written in various forms including prose and verse, likely during the mid-19th century. The book explores themes of motherhood, childhood, and the imaginative worlds children create, emphasizing emotional bonds and the innocence of youth through the interactions of a father, Mr. Sarrasin, and his daughters as they navigate their lives following the loss of their mother. The opening of the work introduces Mr. Sarrasin, a grieving father who strives to fulfill both parental roles after the passing of his wife. As he returns from a journey, he presents his four daughters with beautifully adorned dolls, which he encourages them to nurture as if they were their own children. The touching dynamics between the sisters and their dolls highlight the joys and challenges of motherhood from a child's perspective. This emotional complexity is further deepened by Mr. Sarrasin's observations of his daughters' different personalities while they engage playfully with their new companions. As the story unfolds, it hints at deeper themes of loss, love, and the tender bonds that define family life. (This is an automatically generated summary.) fr Children's stories, French Children's poetry, French PQ PZ Text FR Jeunesse Browsing: Children & Young Adult Reading Browsing: Literature Browsing: Poetry 157617 154366 2024-09-06T11:09:46.316910 2023-10-06T12:30:52.915903 text/html text/html 148757 2020-12-18T21:41:57 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 215917 2020-12-18T21:41:57 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 291584 2024-09-06T11:09:51.616915 application/epub+zip 293614 2024-09-06T11:09:48.093895 application/epub+zip 116915 2024-09-06T11:09:46.909916 application/epub+zip 451551 2024-09-06T11:09:53.998883 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 450724 2024-09-06T11:09:50.736920 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 296177 2022-09-07T15:39:17.704625 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 138406 138312 2024-09-06T11:09:45.755913 2023-10-06T12:30:52.369861 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 135460 2020-12-18T21:41:57 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 53652 2020-12-18T21:41:57 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 135467 2020-12-18T21:41:57 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 52861 2020-12-18T21:41:57 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21380 2024-09-06T11:09:54.134886 application/rdf+xml 18901 2024-09-06T11:09:47.270927 image/jpeg 4313 2024-09-06T11:09:47.087930 image/jpeg 275378 2024-09-06T11:09:46.342981 application/octet-stream application/zip fr.wikipedia en.wikipedia