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François the Waif

English translation · Translated by Jane Minot Sedgwick

by George Sand

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A foundling boy raised in the Berry countryside is the hero of this rustic tale, told in the plain speech of peasants. George Sand's French title is François le Champi, and Jane Minot Sedgwick's English version of 1894 carries a prefatory note on keeping that simplicity in translation. Sand's own preface recalls that the story ran as a newspaper serial in the Journal des Débats and was interrupted by the fall of the July Monarchy in February 1848. It has an introduction and twenty-five chapters.

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George Sand

Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin de Francueil, best known by her pen name George Sand, was a French novelist, memoirist and journalist. Being more renowned than either Victor Hugo or Honoré de Balzac in Britain in the 1830s and 1840s, Sand is recognised as one of the most notable writers of the European Romantic era.

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Author: George Sand
Reading time: About 4 hours
Pages: 89
Language: English
Genre: French Classics
Formats: PDF, EPUB, Read online