This book (not to be confused with Claude Seignolle’s short story by the same title, linked below this review) was one of those cautionary tales, albeit with several excellent come backs from the protagonist on behalf of the poor, which were absolutely correct, but with a moral, or theme if you will, that I generally dislike: basically, the story ends by telling everyone that each person, especially the poor ones, should always stay in one’s born place, and never try to get above oneself, nor try to change things, because that’s what we are commanded by God, the King, the Duke, and all of his subordinates, to do, or rather, not to do. Right. And there were one or two spots where the wolves did not behave as wolves, but rather as infernal horrible things, but then, this is a horror story. It was a bit slow in starting, but very good once the story, yet another frame story, got going. It was a good suspense story to keep up my French by, but not up to his usual standards, except for the deep criticisms of the property system, that I must admit was really good.
I listened to it over Literature Audio and got the citations from the text on the French public domain wikisource site. / J’ai écouté la lecture faite par Pomme sur littérature audio en le lisant enligne sur une version de l’Archive au même temps pour avoir les citations. Je l’avais réfléchi et écrir la revue plus tard.
Dans l’introduction de ce livre où j’ai commencé à écouter par littérature audio:
“and you know that in the first 20 years of life on lives on hope, and in the last 20, one lives in reality / …et tu sais que dans les premiers 20 ans de la vie on a envie de l’espérance et qu’on a dans les dernières 20 dans la réalité.”
Et qu’est-ce que c’est vrai !
“Son père lui avait fait donner une éducation au-dessus de sa position.
…
Thibault avait rêvé autre chose que d’être sabotier.”oops…”
23.93% “Never throw a javelin and then climb a tree without hiding it first, if you plan to claim not to have a weapon…
This book sounds, at the end of chapter 2, like it will be a good one to sleep by.”
24.36% “#justice (mais,
“et, s’il y a un Bon Dieu pour les pauvres gens,”
en revenant au 49, cars c’est tellement beau, cette phrase…)
/
but, “and if there is a God for poor people” going back to 49, because this phrase is so beautiful…”
27.35%”” Êtes-vous aussi de l’avis des juges, mademoiselle Agnelette, qui disent que l’on doit pendre un homme pour un malheureux lapin ? Voyons, pensez-vous que le Bon Dieu avait créé ce daim plutôt pour le baron Jean que pour moi ? “”
27.35%”Pauvre Agnelette, meme si elle est en train d’aider aux riches avec la loi de Bon Dieu, qui dise d’obeir aux lois injustes des seignieurs, ce qui convien bien a eux, bien sur…”
34.62% “Un moraliste a dit : « Il y a toujours dans le malheur de notre plus cher ami un point qui nous est agréable. »
et en suite, l’homme qui sait lire mais il ne connait pas le matematiques… (c’est le meme Or du Djinn qui double…)”
39.74% “”avec un reste de mâchoire, seules parties du corps qu’ils n’eussent pas pu broyer et faire disparaître. ”
Ah, c’est pour ça que Samson avait utilise’ une mâchoire d’un âne.”
58.97% “”plus le moment intéressant approche, plus on respire d’azote. ”
Pu.
Et on attend pour terminer cette recite de la peche…”
83.33% “”les hiboux et les chouettes”
Je ne savais pas qu’il y avait un difference.
-uh oh… “… il pouvait faire beaucoup de mal.”
Pas bon, pas du tout…”
84.62%”Mais, il y a trois mois qu’il n’avait pas pense’ a elle !! Quelle jealousie incroyable. Si tous les gens sont ansi, soit meme la majoritee de l’humanite’, on est perdu.”
99.57% “”… ruisselant de sueur sur son cheval, couvert d’écume et de sang. ”
Pauvre cheval !! Quel mechant cavalier !!!
And here is my review of the incredible short story which carries the same title as this novel, but written by an entirely different person, not too far off from this same time period (I seem to recall, given that both of these works are in the Public Domain…)
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was by searching for books read by Ezwa, and this one was on that reader’s list.
read by native French speakers on Librivox, at the moment.
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Summary of Le Meneur de Loups for the poor: Mathematics and sumptuary laws. The one by Dumas, in any case.
As it turns out, there is also a (very) short story by a different French author, but with this very same title! Summary for the rich: cough up the money for food when there is a famine unless you want your house sacked.