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- catalog abstract ""Born to landless farmers in Brittany in 1834, the young Déguignet was sent out several times a week to beg for the family's food. After spending some of his adolescent years as a cowherd and a domestic speaking only Breton, he left the provinces as a soldier, avid for knowledge of the vast world. He taught himself Latin, then French, then Italian and Spanish; he read history, philosophy, politics, and literature. He was sent to fight in the Crimean war, he served as attendant at Emperor Napoleon III's coronation, he supported Italy's liberation struggle, and was deployed to defend the ill-fated puppet emperor Maximilian in Mexico. After his return home Déguignet worked as a farmer and tobacconist, falling back into dire poverty. Throughout the tale, his freethinking, almost anarchic views put him ahead of his time, and often (sadly, for him) out of step with his fellows." "Memoirs of a Breton Peasant is drawn from Déguignet's voluminous notebooks, written from 1897 to 1904, recently discovered in a grandniece's cupboard in Brittany."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Mémoires d'un paysan bas-breton. English".
- catalog contributor b13225131.
- catalog contributor b13225132.
- catalog coverage "Brittany (France) Rural conditions.".
- catalog created "c2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "c2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2004.".
- catalog description ""Born to landless farmers in Brittany in 1834, the young Déguignet was sent out several times a week to beg for the family's food. After spending some of his adolescent years as a cowherd and a domestic speaking only Breton, he left the provinces as a soldier, avid for knowledge of the vast world. He taught himself Latin, then French, then Italian and Spanish; he read history, philosophy, politics, and literature. He was sent to fight in the Crimean war, he served as attendant at Emperor Napoleon III's coronation, he supported Italy's liberation struggle, and was deployed to defend the ill-fated puppet emperor Maximilian in Mexico. After his return home Déguignet worked as a farmer and tobacconist, falling back into dire poverty.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references.".
- catalog description "Throughout the tale, his freethinking, almost anarchic views put him ahead of his time, and often (sadly, for him) out of step with his fellows." "Memoirs of a Breton Peasant is drawn from Déguignet's voluminous notebooks, written from 1897 to 1904, recently discovered in a grandniece's cupboard in Brittany."--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "431 p. :".
- catalog identifier "1583226168 (hardcover : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "c2004.".
- catalog language "eng fre".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Seven Stories Press,".
- catalog spatial "Brittany (France) Rural conditions.".
- catalog spatial "France Brittany".
- catalog spatial "France".
- catalog spatial "France.".
- catalog subject "305.5/633/092 B 22".
- catalog subject "Church and state France.".
- catalog subject "Déguignet, Jean-Marie, 1834-1905.".
- catalog subject "Farmers France Brittany Biography.".
- catalog subject "HD1536.F8 D39713 2004".
- catalog subject "Peasants France Brittany Biography.".
- catalog subject "Poor France Brittany Biography.".
- catalog subject "Soldiers France Biography.".
- catalog title "Memoirs of a Breton peasant, 1834-1905 / Jean-Marie Déguignet ; translated from the French by Linda Asher.".
- catalog title "Mémoires d'un paysan bas-breton. English".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".