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'''''Le Médecin de campagne''''' (''The Country Doctor'') is an 1833 novel by [[Honoré de Balzac]]. The second in his '''''Scène de la vie de campagne''''' series, it addresses the author's own preoccupation with social organisation, political power and religion, though the reader has to avoid confusing Balzac's political principles with the convictions of Dr Benassis on which critics have often given contrary opinions. Some see the book as giving a sort of 20th century-type liberalism,<ref>André Wurmser, La comédie inhumaine</ref> while others see the premises of socialist thinking or [[Charles Fourier|fourierist]] tendencies. The book's romantic dimension has to be taken into account, despite quite a thin plot, connecting it with the world of [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau|Rousseau]] with an elogy on nature, peace and poetry. None of its characters appear elsewhere in |
'''''Le Médecin de campagne''''' (''The Country Doctor'') is an 1833 novel by [[Honoré de Balzac]]. The second in his '''''Scène de la vie de campagne''''' series, it addresses the author's own preoccupation with social organisation, political power and religion, though the reader has to avoid confusing Balzac's political principles with the convictions of Dr Benassis on which critics have often given contrary opinions. Some see the book as giving a sort of 20th century-type liberalism,<ref>André Wurmser, La comédie inhumaine</ref> while others see the premises of socialist thinking or [[Charles Fourier|fourierist]] tendencies. The book's romantic dimension has to be taken into account, despite quite a thin plot, connecting it with the world of [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau|Rousseau]] with an elogy on nature, peace and poetry. None of its characters appear elsewhere in ''[[La Comédie humaine]]''. |
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The heart of its third part is made up of tales told during a vigil in a barn by Guoguelat, a former soldier in the armies of Napoleon. This section uses material Balzac had gathered for a planned work entitled ''Les Batailles napoléoniennes'', which he began but never finished. <!---Le cœur de la troisième partie du roman est constitué par les récits, faits à la veillée dans une grange, par l'ex-fantassin de Napoléon, Guoguelat. Balzac effleure ici un projet dont il avait tracé le plan et commencé la rédaction : ''Les Batailles napoléoniennes''. L'ouvrage ne verra jamais le jour, mais les récits de ces batailles, les références aux généraux, maréchaux, grognards et fantassins seront dispersés dans toute [[la Comédie humaine]]. A tel point que Napoléon est le personnage le plus souvent cité. Tantôt en rapport avec les personnages fictifs du romancier, tantôt dans l'histoire réelle.<ref>Anne-Marie Meiningeer et Pierre Citron, index des personnes réelles, [[Bibliothèque de la Pléiade]], 1981, p. 1773 à 1782{{ISBN|2070108775|date=May 2011}}</ref>---> |
The heart of its third part is made up of tales told during a vigil in a barn by Guoguelat, a former soldier in the armies of Napoleon. This section uses material Balzac had gathered for a planned work entitled ''Les Batailles napoléoniennes'', which he began but never finished. <!---Le cœur de la troisième partie du roman est constitué par les récits, faits à la veillée dans une grange, par l'ex-fantassin de Napoléon, Guoguelat. Balzac effleure ici un projet dont il avait tracé le plan et commencé la rédaction : ''Les Batailles napoléoniennes''. L'ouvrage ne verra jamais le jour, mais les récits de ces batailles, les références aux généraux, maréchaux, grognards et fantassins seront dispersés dans toute [[la Comédie humaine]]. A tel point que Napoléon est le personnage le plus souvent cité. Tantôt en rapport avec les personnages fictifs du romancier, tantôt dans l'histoire réelle.<ref>Anne-Marie Meiningeer et Pierre Citron, index des personnes réelles, [[Bibliothèque de la Pléiade]], 1981, p. 1773 à 1782{{ISBN|2070108775|date=May 2011}}</ref>---> |
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Le Médecin de campagne (The Country Doctor) is an 1833 novel by Honoré de Balzac. The second in his Scène de la vie de campagne series, it addresses the author's own preoccupation with social organisation, political power and religion, though the reader has to avoid confusing Balzac's political principles with the convictions of Dr Benassis on which critics have often given contrary opinions. Some see the book as giving a sort of 20th century-type liberalism,[1] while others see the premises of socialist thinking or fourierist tendencies. The book's romantic dimension has to be taken into account, despite quite a thin plot, connecting it with the world of Rousseau with an elogy on nature, peace and poetry. None of its characters appear elsewhere in La Comédie humaine.
The heart of its third part is made up of tales told during a vigil in a barn by Guoguelat, a former soldier in the armies of Napoleon. This section uses material Balzac had gathered for a planned work entitled Les Batailles napoléoniennes, which he began but never finished.
Synopsis
In 1829, commander Genestas arrives in a village in the Dauphiné, where he meets Dr Benassis, who has transformed this miserable settlement into a small but prosperous town in only ten years. The two men each have a secret which is only revealed at the end of the book.
Notes and references
- ^ André Wurmser, La comédie inhumaine
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