Project Gutenberg 2025-03-26 Public domain in the USA. 186 Audoux, Marguerite 1863 1937 Donquichote, Marguerite Mirbeau, Octave 1848 1917 Marie-Claire : $b roman $aParis :$bBibliothèque Charpentier, $c1911. Winner of le prix Femina, 1910. Wikipedia page about this book: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Claire_(roman) Claudine Corbasson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) "Marie-Claire : roman" by Marguerite Audoux is a novel written in the early 20th century. The story centers on Marie-Claire, a young girl who faces adversity and upheaval, charting her journey from childhood through her formative years in institutions and the wrenching experiences of loss, separation, and adaptation. The novel is noted for its intimate realism, its focus on the daily life and emotional world of its protagonist, and its depiction of working-class and orphaned childhood, likely drawing from the author's own background. The opening of the book introduces Marie-Claire at a moment of profound loss: the death of her mother. The narrative follows her as she and her sister are taken in by neighbors and eventually placed in a convent-like orphanage, run by nuns and supported by a cast of caretakers and fellow orphans. Through Marie-Claire's eyes, readers experience the routines, rules, friendships, and small rebellions of institutional life, her bond with characters like Ismérie, Augustine, and Marie Renaud, and her deep attachment to the nurturing yet fallible Sœur Marie-Aimée. The narrative details formative incidents—struggles with illness, authority, friendship, petty transgressions, and early work assignments—capturing Marie-Claire’s emotional development as she copes with change and uncertainty, leading to her eventual placement as a shepherdess, which marks the end of her childhood in the home. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/marieclaireroman00audouoft/page/n7/mode/2up 20240228090107audoux 1911 FR Reading ease score: 79.1 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. fr French fiction -- 20th century PQ Text Category: Novels Category: French Literature 289757 2025-06-30T04:47:36.755700 text/html 264500 2025-03-26T10:09:44 text/html 396841 2025-06-30T04:47:43.815155 application/epub+zip 396373 2025-06-30T04:47:38.099679 application/epub+zip 231148 2025-06-30T04:47:37.416657 application/epub+zip 462062 2025-06-30T04:47:47.788159 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 407985 2025-06-30T04:47:43.184140 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 242810 2025-06-30T04:47:35.760709 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 222880 2025-03-26T10:09:44 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17113 2025-06-30T04:47:47.932119 application/rdf+xml 16552 2025-06-30T04:47:37.567682 image/jpeg 3148 2025-06-30T04:47:37.491675 image/jpeg 1266331 2025-06-30T04:47:36.788686 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 fr.wikipedia fr.wikipedia en.wikipedia en.wikipedia