Marbot sounds WONDERFUL! Also, MUST pass on the tip (assuming she hasn't read it; she seems to have read EVERYTHING) to artaxastra, who has a couple of Napoleonic novels down the road in her historic cycle.
(Having read it, is Conan Doyle's Gérard a charming fiction, or has it got some basis in history? Haven't re-read it but it was another of the books my father gave me early on in French translation, and I remember loving it at the time; Gérard and Gil Blas de Santillane were my two favourite rogues..)
"Manger de la vache enragée": haven't heard it in quite a bit; my parents used it. It was the original translation's title (that has been changed in a new translation; like the new English-language Proust it may be more accurate but it's not a patch on the earlier one); can't recall when that came out in French first, possibly immediate postwar.
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Date: 2008-10-14 03:17 pm (UTC)(Having read it, is Conan Doyle's Gérard a charming fiction, or has it got some basis in history? Haven't re-read it but it was another of the books my father gave me early on in French translation, and I remember loving it at the time; Gérard and Gil Blas de Santillane were my two favourite rogues..)
"Manger de la vache enragée": haven't heard it in quite a bit; my parents used it. It was the original translation's title (that has been changed in a new translation; like the new English-language Proust it may be more accurate but it's not a patch on the earlier one); can't recall when that came out in French first, possibly immediate postwar.