Un curé de province

by Hector Malot

Roman qui raconte comment un curé de province a réussi à faire transformer son église en basilique. En fin d'ouvrage, un dossier donne des informations sur les idées et les influences qui sont à l'origine de cette oeuvre.

Ce roman est une réédition de l'oeuvre originale datant de 1872. Pour la présente édition, elle est agrémentée d'une postface, écrite par M. Yves Pincet, et d'une couverture originale.

325 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1872

About the author

Hector Malot was a French writer born in La Bouille, Seine-Maritime. He studied law in Rouen and Paris, but eventually literature became his passion. He worked as a dramatic critic for Lloyd Francais and as a literary critic for L'Opinion Nationale.
His first book, published in 1859, was Les Amants. In total Malot wrote over 70 books. By far his most famous book is Sans Famille (Nobody's Boy, 1878), which deals with the travels of the young orphan Remi, who is sold to the streetmusician Vitalis at age 10. Sans Famille gained fame as a children's book, though it was not originally intended as such.
He announced his retirement as an author of fiction in 1895, but in 1896 he returned with the novel L'amour Dominateur as well as the account of his literary life Le Roman de mes Romans (The Novel of my Novels).