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Sto caricando le informazioni... Celestine: Voices from a French Villagedi Gillian Tindall
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. this book has stayed w me since 1997 - as I pick it up again in 2022 I realize I have nothing but admiration for Tindall and what she has accomplished here ( ) Acquired via BookCrossing 27 Feb 2010 - at the Birmingham meetup An amazing book based on real events when Tindall found a cache of old letters in a house in a French village, mainly asking for a woman's, Celestine's, hand in marriage in the 1860s. Knowing Celestine's grand-daughter lived in the village, she traces the interconnecting relationships between the villagers, the landscape, and wider French history, right up to their present-day lives in the village. Wonderful - warm and rich and the village seems really similar to the one we've been staying in, if in a different area. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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"Late on a summer afternoon in the very heart of rural France, in a small, centuries-old house newly abandoned to its ghosts, Gillian Tindall came upon a cache of letters dating from the 1860s. Neatly folded and carefully tucked away, all were addressed to the village innkeeper's daughter, Celestine. All but one were proposals of marriage. Celestine Chaumette (1844-1933) was to reject each of these suitors to wed another; yet she preserved the letters, keeping them throughout her long life." "Something about the letters, about the woman who had so clearly cherished them, fired the historian's curiosity and the novelist's imagination. With a house in Chassignolles, Celestine's village, Ms. Tindall would spend years searching in dusty archives and farmhouse attics, probing the memories and myths of the men and women from the village and the surrounding countryside. The treasure she unearthed reaches far beyond the mystery of Celestine to tell of a vanished way of life, of a century of revolutionary change - and of the strange persistence, despite all, of the past."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)944.551History and Geography Europe France and region Orléans, etc.; Auvergne Berry: Indre, CherClassificazione LCVotoMedia:
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