Project Gutenberg 2008-09-14 Public domain in the USA. 158 Sand, George 1804 1876 Dupin, Amandine-Aurore-Lucile Dudevant, Amandine-Aurore-Lucile Dupin, Armandine Aurore Lucille Le secrétaire intime Reading ease score: 77.3 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. Wikipedia page about this book: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Secr%C3%A9taire_intime Produced by Carlo Traverso, Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr) "Le secrétaire intime" by George Sand is a novel written in the early 19th century. The story introduces Louis de Saint-Julien, a young nobleman traveling on foot from Lyon to Avignon, who is searching for a better life and hoping to escape the harsh realities of his current existence. His character is depicted as honest yet naive, and he soon becomes entangled with a mysterious and beautiful princess, setting the stage for a series of encounters that blend romance with elements of social exploration. At the start of the novel, Louis de Saint-Julien is portrayed as a noble yet struggling young man embarking on a journey to find a more fulfilling life. After enduring several days of travel and physical discomfort, he encounters a luxurious carriage and, in a moment of impulsive desperation, attempts to hitch a ride. When the beautiful occupant of the carriage, later revealed to be Princess Quintilia, offers him a place beside her, he is both awed and anxious. As he travels with her, his imagination runs wild about her position and the nature of their relationship, leaving him conflicted between admiration and caution. This opening sets the tone for Louis's journey into a world of elegance and intrigue, highlighting themes of class, identity, and the pursuit of dreams amidst the constraints of reality. (This is an automatically generated summary.) fr French fiction -- 19th century PQ Text FR Littérature Browsing: History - General Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 417212 417116 2025-03-11T06:04:12.093342 2023-09-12T04:11:58.041811 text/html text/html 470110 2021-01-04T02:52:46 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 700236 2021-01-04T02:52:46 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 749459 2025-03-11T06:04:21.188247 application/epub+zip 756305 2025-03-11T06:04:15.259334 application/epub+zip 230791 2025-03-11T06:04:12.975305 application/epub+zip 4223112 2025-03-11T06:04:25.342284 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 4209091 2025-03-11T06:04:19.788276 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 371920 2022-09-12T10:23:53.121907 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 400617 2025-03-11T06:04:11.362335 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 400474 2021-01-04T02:52:46 text/plain; charset=utf-8 152203 2021-01-04T02:52:46 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 391295 2021-01-04T02:52:46 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 150834 2021-01-04T02:52:46 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 22036 2025-03-11T06:04:25.484234 application/rdf+xml 12982 2025-03-11T06:04:13.746333 image/jpeg 3453 2025-03-11T06:04:13.418329 image/jpeg 725888 2025-03-11T06:04:12.175312 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 en.wikipedia fr.wikipedia