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Fanchon Fadet, by her disregard of appearances and village etiquette, scandalizes the conservative minds of farmers and millers very much as Aurore Dupin scandalized the leaders of society at La Châtre. Most prominence is given to the more pleasing characters, but the existence of brutality and cupidity among the peasant classes is nowhere kept out of sight.
There is something particularly attractive in the portraits of the twin brothers partly estranged by character, wholly united by affection, and in the figure of Fanchon Fadet, an original in humble life, which has made this little work a general favorite wherever it is known. These prose-idylls have been called "The Georgics of France."
You are going to fall back into the theatre! I pity you! After having put dogs on the boards at the Odeon, perhaps they are going to ask you to put on horses! That is where we are now! And all the household, from Maurice to Fadet, how is it? Kiss the dear little girls for me and let them return it to you from me. Your old friend. CCLXXVII. TO GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Nohant, 4th May, 1874
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