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A narrator returns to his native small town and offers a series of intimate recollections that portray the quiet dignity of humble labor, the warmth and limitations of provincial life, and the gentle moral lessons passed down by his father. Through precise evocations of daily tasks, local characters, and the contrast between urban ambitions and rural steadiness, the text sketches community rhythms, domestic details, and the narrator's mixture of guilt, affection, and admiration. Portraits of work, thrift, modest pleasures, and resignation accumulate into a contemplative meditation on belonging, duty, and the understated heroism of ordinary lives.

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Title: Sous d'humbles toits

Author: Henri Bachelin

Release date: June 27, 2023 [eBook #71054]

Language: French

Original publication: France: Éditions de l'effort libre, 1913

Credits: Laurent Vogel (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica))

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HENRI BACHELIN

Sous d’humbles toits

Éditions de l’Effort Libre
POITIERS & PARIS
MCMXIII

IL A ÉTÉ FAIT DE CET OUVRAGE
un tirage sur papier de Hollande Van Gelder
de vingt exemplaires numérotés à la main
et du prix de cinq francs

DU MÊME AUTEUR :

  • Horizons et Coins du Morvan.
  • Pas-comme-les-autres.
  • Les Manigants.
  • Jules Renard et son œuvre.
  • Robes noires.
  • La Bancale.
  • Les Sports aux Champs.
  • Juliette la Jolie.

POUR PARAITRE :

  • Le Résigné.

à Romain Rolland
qui aime « respirer le souffle des héros »,
ces âmes de résignés,
qui sont, à leur manière, des héros.

H. B.