The Aspirations of Jean Servien
English translation · Translated by A. R. Allinson
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The Aspirations of Jean Servien is by Anatole France, in a translation by Alfred Allinson, and says that Jean Servien was born in a back-shop in the Rue Notre-Dame des Champs. Jean's father was a bookbinder who worked for the Religious Houses, and Jean was a little weakling child whose mother nursed him as she sewed the books, sheet by sheet.
A big man says he has written his translation in dark, ice-cold garrets, on chandlers' wrappers, snuff papers and the backs of playing cards, and gives his name as the Marquis Tudesco, of Venice. A scene at a gate has Jean following a woman through bramble bushes, exulting to feel the thorns scratch and tear his flesh, and seizing her by the hand to kiss it. A man asks himself whether he has denounced a man as hostage, and his fears are soon allayed because Colonel Tudesco was only a wind-bag, and could not really arrest people.
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Book facts
- Author
- Anatole France
- Reading time
- About 2 hours
- Pages
- 108
- Language
- English
- Genre
- French Classics
- Formats
- PDF, EPUB, Read online