Project Gutenberg 2016-04-27 Public domain in the USA. 88 Kolney, Fernand 1868 Le salon de Madame Truphot: moeurs littéraires Produced by Giovanni Fini, Clarity and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) "Le Salon de Madame Truphot: moeurs littéraires" by Fernand Kolney is a novel written in the late 19th century. The story unveils the intricate social dynamics within a bourgeois literary salon, centered around the titular character, Madame Truphot, who seeks to maintain her influence over artists and intellectuals despite her advancing age and fading prominence. The narrative explores themes of ambition, social status, and the quest for artistic recognition amidst the absurdities of literary life. The opening of the novel introduces Médéric Boutorgne, a struggling writer who frequents the café Napolitain, a hub for various writers and journalists. His character is portrayed as an eager but unsuccessful participant in the literary world, haunted by his inability to achieve any substantial recognition. The narrative sets the tone for a satirical examination of the literary society of Paris, revealing the myriad eccentricities and follies of its characters, including the flamboyant Madame Truphot and her unsatisfied quest for relevance. As Boutorgne prepares to attend one of her salons, the reader is immersed in a world rife with ambition, longing, and comedic misadventures that define the era's cultural landscape. (This is an automatically generated summary.) fr French fiction -- 20th century PQ Text FR Littérature Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 980393 980397 2024-09-21T15:18:29.740531 2023-09-22T11:56:38.957562 text/html text/html 989593 2016-04-26T20:13:28 text/html; charset=utf-8 417752 2016-04-26T20:13:30 text/html; charset=utf-8 application/zip 485183 2024-09-21T15:18:42.180487 application/epub+zip 489618 2024-09-21T15:18:32.002516 application/epub+zip 478819 2024-09-21T15:18:31.069533 application/epub+zip 729431 2024-09-21T15:18:50.052412 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 659402 2024-09-21T15:18:41.133481 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 648932 2022-09-23T16:26:51.404271 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 916417 916199 2024-09-21T15:18:28.462544 2023-09-22T11:56:37.555566 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 916535 2016-04-26T20:13:26 text/plain; charset=utf-8 367806 2016-04-26T20:13:30 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 18250 2024-09-21T15:18:50.214414 application/rdf+xml 18532 2024-09-21T15:18:31.166510 image/jpeg 3480 2024-09-21T15:18:31.120512 image/jpeg 426582 2024-09-21T15:18:29.839542 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