Project Gutenberg 2013-06-12 Public domain in the USA. 162 Souvestre, Émile 1806 1854 Souvestre, Emile Les réprouvés et les élus (t.1) Au lecteur -- Une maison isolée -- Les trois compagnons -- Les parents -- La tutelle -- Seize ans après -- La Forge des Buttes -- Trois amis du grand monde -- La villa de madame de Luxeuil -- Le vieux portrait -- L’agneau blanc -- Esquisses du grand monde -- Une maison de la rue des Morts -- Un vieil ami du genre humain -- Une fille mère -- Le ménage de mademoiselle Clotilde -- Un complot de famille -- La révélation -- . . . . -- Une fête dans un grenier -- M. Michel -- Les deux cousins -- Esquisses du peuple -- Une rencontre -- Denoûment -- Le voyageur de l’hôtel des Étrangers -- La mère Louis -- L’idée fixe -- Explications. Produced by Laurent Vogel, Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) "Les réprouvés et les élus (t.1)" by Émile Souvestre is a novel written in the mid-19th century. The narrative explores themes of judgment, morality, and the contrasts between societal perception and spiritual truth, introduced through a parable involving Christ and the contrasting fates of the 'élus' and the 'réprouvés'. The prologue hints at several key characters who will likely navigate these moral complexities, including a baroness and a doctor, possibly serving as representations of societal norms and personal struggles. The opening of the novel sets the stage with a reflection on a small, idyllic town named Château-Lavallière, characterized by its quaintness and isolation from the chaos of the outside world. It introduces the baroness and her sickly daughter, Honorine, alongside the doctor, M. Vorel, who attends to them but appears to have ulterior motives regarding his relationship with the family. As the baroness expresses concern over her child’s worsening condition, an underlying tension suggests that their lives are about to be disrupted by darker forces. This foreshadowing culminates in an attempt on their lives by three brigands, highlighting the stark contrasts in personal ambitions and moralities interwoven with the characters’ struggles within the narrative. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/42924/42924-h/images/cover.jpg Reading ease score: 79.4 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. fr Short stories, French French fiction -- 19th century PQ Text FR Littérature Category: Novels Category: French Literature 632774 2025-07-17T09:59:06.962463 text/html 624278 2024-10-23T16:20:09 text/html 310179 2025-07-17T09:59:14.362369 application/epub+zip 319455 2025-07-17T09:59:08.002424 application/epub+zip 284194 2025-07-17T09:59:07.491400 application/epub+zip 529007 2025-07-17T09:59:19.434353 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 485665 2025-07-17T09:59:13.887387 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 450089 2022-09-19T15:17:27.353064 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 589560 2025-07-17T09:59:05.444425 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 589402 2013-06-12T09:29:14 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 18723 2025-07-17T09:59:19.572344 application/rdf+xml 16853 2025-07-17T09:59:07.586403 image/jpeg 2868 2025-07-17T09:59:07.539408 image/jpeg 300478 2025-07-17T09:59:07.017421 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia fr.wikipedia