#frenchwriters hashtag - Bluesky

@audubonballroom.bsky.social

5 months ago

Racism in The Girl with the Golden Eyes

Honoré de Balzac's The Girl with the Golden Eyes recounts protagonist Henri de Marsay's pursuit of Paquita Valdez. Balzac's portrayal of Paquita and some of the characters around her is often racist and sexist,

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Alessa Ellefson

@alessaellefson.bsky.social

9 months ago

A massive registry in the Brussels archives. The book, bigger than my forearm, is displayed open to a page in its center. On the left-hand page, meant for people living on the rue de la Montagne, are the names of various people who moved there. Halfway down the page is the entry for Charles Baudelaire, who came from Honfleur (a town in France). There's no date for when he moved out of his residence here, though (note that the man died in Paris in 1867, not too soon after this entry, since the other dates before and after his name show the year 1866.

Brussels city registry showing a certain Charles Baudelaire, writer and poet (homme de lettres), born in Paris in 1821, came to live rue de la Montagne.

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TitianGoddess

@titiangoddess.bsky.social

1 year ago

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
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#BookChallenge
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