Author: BONIFACE-SAINTINE, XAVIER
Title: Picciola
Description: Paris: Ambroise Dupont, Editeur, 1838. Hardcover. Decorative endpapers, good spine, head of the spine is chipped and missing, outer edges are rubbed. Septieme Edition. Text is in French. Book is about the Earl of Charny (Compte de Charney) . The story of Count Charney, a former soldier who lost his trust in man, jailed for conspiring against Napoleon. The Count discovers a plant growing between two stones of his cell, which became a distraction, then an obsession, then a passion and finally it becomes a symbol of life and love. Through the physiological development of the plant he calls Picciola he learns to love and appreciate beauty through this real example of the evolution of nature. The image of a small flower that grows and survives with the care provided in a place {prison} so sinister, is an image of the force of nature and persistence. Charney follows the example of the flower and seeks to enrich his mind and soul amidst the walls that imprison him. Fair .
Keywords: Xavier Boniface Saintine (1798-1865) Count Charles Véramont de Charney Picciola Count de Charney Political Prisoners French Literature French Language
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Title: Picciola
Description: Paris: Ambroise Dupont, Editeur, 1838. Hardcover. Decorative endpapers, good spine, head of the spine is chipped and missing, outer edges are rubbed. Septieme Edition. Text is in French. Book is about the Earl of Charny (Compte de Charney) . The story of Count Charney, a former soldier who lost his trust in man, jailed for conspiring against Napoleon. The Count discovers a plant growing between two stones of his cell, which became a distraction, then an obsession, then a passion and finally it becomes a symbol of life and love. Through the physiological development of the plant he calls Picciola he learns to love and appreciate beauty through this real example of the evolution of nature. The image of a small flower that grows and survives with the care provided in a place {prison} so sinister, is an image of the force of nature and persistence. Charney follows the example of the flower and seeks to enrich his mind and soul amidst the walls that imprison him. Fair .
Keywords: Xavier Boniface Saintine (1798-1865) Count Charles Véramont de Charney Picciola Count de Charney Political Prisoners French Literature French Language
Price: US$ 112.00 Seller: Bookshop Baltimore
- Book number: 23761
- Book number: 23761
See more books from our catalog: Rare