Project Gutenberg 2006-04-01 Public domain in the USA. 103 About, Edmond 1828 1885 About, Edmond François Valentin Abu, Edmond About, E. (Edmond) Avout, Edmondos Ampou, Edmondos About, Edmond Francois Valentin Germaine Reading ease score: 80.9 (6th grade). Easy to read. Produced by Carlo Traverso, Renald Levesque and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica)) "Germaine" by Edmond About is a novel written in the late 19th century. The story revolves around the struggles of the La Tour d'Embleuse family, particularly focusing on Germaine, the daughter who is gravely ill and entwined in her parents' turbulent lives as they confront their financial decline and societal expectations. At the start of the novel, the scene is set in the grand Hôtel de Sanglié in Paris where the baron provides a glimpse into the domestic life of the aristocracy and its servitude. We witness the interactions among the household staff as they speculate on their master's wealth. Contrasting this domestic bliss, the narrative shifts to the duchess, Germaine’s mother, who is described with poignant detail as she grapples with poverty and the welfare of her ill daughter. The text introduces a central conflict when the family’s aristocratic identity collides with pressing financial struggles, leading to a desperate conversation about the potential marriage of Germaine to a wealthy suitor, sharpening themes of love, sacrifice, and social class. (This is an automatically generated summary.) fr French fiction -- 19th century PQ Text FR Littérature Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 473405 473142 2024-10-08T06:16:19.375441 2023-09-08T08:15:51.394516 text/html text/html 473398 473135 2024-10-08T06:16:19.656402 2023-09-08T08:15:51.546506 text/html text/html 240132 2024-10-08T06:16:27.010355 application/epub+zip 246670 2024-10-08T06:16:21.625382 application/epub+zip 246669 2024-10-08T06:16:20.392401 application/epub+zip 401007 2024-10-08T06:16:31.222342 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 375979 2024-10-08T06:16:26.283393 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 357232 2022-09-08T14:37:30.922148 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 435385 435173 2024-10-08T06:16:18.952418 2023-09-08T08:15:51.103518 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 425908 2006-04-10T13:42:14 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 164833 2006-04-10T13:42:26 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 19559 2024-10-08T06:16:31.348333 application/rdf+xml 8902 2024-10-08T06:16:20.943400 image/jpeg 2395 2024-10-08T06:16:20.663383 image/jpeg 234207 2024-10-08T06:16:19.701395 application/octet-stream application/zip 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 fr.wikipedia en.wikipedia