Gabrielle DuBois

LOUISE Series, Part 2.Why revisit Louise's life 20 years after 'Mistress Mine', the first part of the LOUISE series? What's happened since then?Louise is now 39. A terrible event has turned her life upside down, destroying the happiness she had built up in Australia. Can her friends and family help her? Paris, the 1900 Universal Exhibition, the metro, brand new cars and the modern world of the early 20th century will plunge Louise into a whirlwind of happiness and unhappiness.Faithful friends emerge from the past, but enemies lie in wait too.Will life give Louise a second chance at happiness?Illustrated in every chapter, this second part of the LOUISE series is best enjoyed by 18-year-olds and over.

Dans ce recueil de la s rie Br ves d'auteurs: Libert s d'auteurs, Mme et M. de Girardin, Mme Sand, MM. Lamennais, Chateaubriand, Balzac, Hugo, Gautier ou Flaubert voquent les diff rents aspects de la libert individuelle, politique, sociale, litt raire ou artistique.Les extraits de ces pens es d'auteurs nous parlent et r sonnent encore de nos jours. Les si cles passent, mais le caract re des hommes ne change pas. Avec m thode, conviction, humour ou coups de gueule, ils nous d voilent leur libert .Lire ne serait-elle pas la plus belle de nos libert s ?

Quel tait le cadre de vie de Dumas, Sand, Gautier, Sue, Flaubert et confr res, nos romanciers et po tes du dix-neuvi me si cle ? Dans Int rieurs d'auteurs, cinqui me recueil de Br ves d'Auteurs, vous ne trouverez pas la description d'un bureau, ce qui manquerait de couleur et de charme. Non, ici, vous sont offerts l'anecdote insolite, le lieu pittoresque et inattendu o ont pu se loger ces grands auteurs. Entrez dans leurs mansardes, palais ou mini maisons. Savourez le privil ge de vivre, le temps de quelques pages, en leur illustre compagnie. Vous verrez, m me la prison la plus sombre s'illumine quand un illustre auteur l'habite ...

Pourquoi voyager quand on n'y est pas forc ? C'est qu'il ne s'agit pas tant de voyager que de partir: quel est celui de nous qui n'a pas quelque douleur distraire ou quelque joug secouer ? George Sand.Dans la continuit d'esprit des deux premiers volumes de Br ves d'auteurs, voici quelques textes glan s et l au fur et mesure de mes lectures, telle la jolie lapalissade ci-dessous, trouv e dans un journal du dix-neuvi me: Quand la borne est franchie, il n'y a plus de limites. Alors, avec Gautier, Dumas, Sand, Hugo, Musset, Lamartine et tant d'autres belles plumes, vivons des d parts d chirants, joyeux ou m lancoliques. Humons les embruns du large et remplissons nos poumons de la fum e noire des locomotives. L'aventure sera au bout de la page et le voyage inattendu.

D'o vous vient votre inspiration et o , quand et comment crivez-vous ? George Sand trouvait cette curiosit pu rile, et r pondait: Je ne sais pas.Heureusement pour nous, dans ce quatri me recueil de Br ves d'auteurs, des textes de Balzac, Baudelaire, Dumas, Feydeau, Flaubert, Gautier, Lamartine, ou encore Maupassant et nous raconteront le pourquoi et le comment des critures d'auteurs.Comme le seul but de la s rie Br ves d'auteurs est de donner du plaisir notre cerveau et notre coeur, dans ce recueil nous aborderons, surpris et le sourire aux l vres, les pens es des crivains du 19 me si cle, mais surtout, nous toucheront, de l'oeil, leur m lancolie, humour, revendications ou m me na vet . Nous verrons nos chers po tes s'user crire, mais l'auraient-ils fait sans plaisir ?Remercierons-les de nous avoir brillamment transmis leur plaisir du livre et plongeons dedans pour oublier un peu le monde.

L'id e d'un recueil de Cocasseries d'auteurs m'est venue au fil de mes lectures bibliographiques pour mes romans historiques. Quand on lit six cents pages d'un r cit de voyage crit par un auteur du 19 me si cle, mon si cle de pr dilection, pour en tirer le fait d'une ligne que l'on recherchait, on tombe sur une multitude d'anecdotes insolites qu'on n'avait pas imagin es.C'est en racontant autour de moi ces anecdotes pittoresques, que j'ai su qu'elles pouvaient amuser aussi bien le coll gien que ma tante. Dumas, Sand, Gautier, Chateaubriand, Musset, Baudelaire, Zola et tant d'autres, prenaient vie, pour le plus grand plaisir de mes auditeurs. Apr s avoir lu ces histoires rocambolesques survenues aux grands auteurs, votre regard sur eux va changer Je ne veux ici que partager mon amour pour ces crivains et po tes. Je suis s re que nombre de jeunes, qui se m connaissent en tant que lecteurs, trouveront, par ce biais, ce qui manque leur coeur et le chemin qui les m nera la litt rature, voie merveilleuse qui illumine la vie du lecteur.

Banville, Chateaubriand, Dumas, Flaubert, Gautier, Musset, Sand, ces po tes, auteurs, penseurs vivaient pour leur plume, mais s'ils nourrissent notre pens e, eux devaient aussi nourrir leur corps.Dans ce deuxi me recueil des Br ves d'auteurs, nous d nerons, ou pas, en compagnie de ces illustres crivains du 19 me si cle. Que ce soit dans les ch teaux imaginaires de Balzac, dans la rue avec Baudelaire, en prison avec G rard de Nerval ou la table ouverte du bon Th o, nous d nerons toujours en bonne et belle compagnie et la conversation des convives rel vera tous les plats.

In 1876, Louise St Quentin was sixteen. She was an orphan and the rich owner of a huge estate. Her future seemed all mapped out; a marriage of convenience would be arranged for her so that she would have someone to help her manage her estate. But Louise had the rather unfortunate tendency of listening to her heart rather than her reason. The end of the nineteenth century was terribly exciting, and Louise wanted to discover everything - the adventure lying at the end of the railway track, romantic music, the modern cuisine in the new Parisian restaurants, and impressionist painting. Was her artistic, cultural and above all sensual upbringing going to lead the young girl to her ruin or to love? A native of the Selle valley, would Louise find the grass greener on the other side of the world? A word by Jane Hentg s, the translator It was so exciting when, after sending emails to each other for a couple of weeks, Gabrielle Dubois contacted me on Mothering Sunday to tell me that she had chosen me to translate the first volume of her Louise Saint Quentin saga Mistress Mine (Sous les Eucalyptus in French). It was a wonderful, totally unexpected mothering day present. After teaching English literature and translation in a French university for twenty years, here I was confronted with a real challenge - and some challenge Such simple things at first sight as Monsieur, Madame and Mademoiselle turned out to be amazingly difficult to translate, as ways of addressing people at different periods in time, in different social classes and in different countries are not the same and not only is the novel is set in the 19th century but the heroine, Louise, travels all over the world The fact the novel is set in the 19th century also creates numerous other difficulties of a more technical nature. For example, it would have been so simple if young girls had worn tee shirts and jeans at the time but this was far from being the case. They wore very sophisticated, elaborate clothes, especially in the upper-class circles which Louise moves around in, and Gabrielle Dubois obviously studied the fashion of the time in detail. In fact the whole novel is extremely well documented. The novel, however, was a real pleasure to translate as it is so pleasant to read. The reader can't help getting attached to the heroine and all the men who cross her path during her travels. Louise Saint Quentin not only becomes their much desired "Mistress Mine" but she is above all her own "Mistress Mine" as she has to learn all about life and how to fend for herself from a very early age, something unusual for a girl at the time. The numerous, often pithy, dialogues throughout the novel show her personality and how it evolves. They bring both Louise and the other characters to life and together with all the little, well-observed details, create "a reality effect". In a word, Mistress Mine is a good read as we are drawn into the novel from the start and find it hard to put down. Although we are rather sad to get to the end, we know there are other volumes of the saga in store and we can't wait to read them as we know very well that Louise's journey through life is in its early stages and that Mistress Mine is just the beginning. www.gabrielle-dubois.com #gabrielleduboisthestoryteller

LOUISE Series, Part 1.The end of the 19th century is terribly exciting, and Louise wants to discover everything - the adventure lying at the end of the railway track, romantic music, the modern cuisine in the new Parisian restaurants, and impressionist painting. But Louise wants more - she wants love, she wants a family. Will her artistic, cultural, and sensual upbringing going to lead her to her ruin or to love? Will the young French girl find the grass greener on the other side of the world? Hard to say, Louise listens to her heart rather than her reason.The author Gabrielle Dubois has not only researched how people of this period lived, thought, and moved, but also how they dressed.A painting illustrates each chapter of this story of love and adventure around the world, in which the main female character grows, evolves, and makes female friends.Recommended 18+