Journal d'un voyageur pendant la guerre

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Journal d'un voyageur pendant la guerre

by George Sand

FR·~5 hours·1 chapter

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JOURNAL D'UN VOYAGEUR PENDANT LA GUERRE - PAR - GEORGE SAND - (L.-A. AURORE DUPIN) VEUVE DE M. LE BARON DUDEVANT - PARIS MICHEL LÉVY FRÈRES, ÉDITEURS RUE AUBER, 3, PLACE DE L'OPÉRA

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A vivid, first‑person journal pulls listeners into the harrowing autumn of 1870, when France’s fields are scarred by battle and daily life hangs in a fragile balance. The narrator’s reflections blend the stark reality of wounded soldiers strewn across the countryside with moments of quiet sunrise, the chirping of chickens, and children’s laughter that seem almost cruelly out of place. Through fever‑ridden nights and the relentless worry for a sick child, the diary captures the personal toll of a nation under siege, offering intimate snapshots of fear, hope, and the stubborn persistence of ordinary chores amid chaos.

The prose oscillates between lyrical description of a world on the brink—dry heat, sudden storms, and the ever‑looming threat of artillery—and the raw, unfiltered emotions of a traveler caught in history’s tide. Listeners will feel the weight of each entry, the yearning for peace, and the fragile thread that ties humanity together even as war rages around them.

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Language

fr

Duration

~5 hours (292K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by Carlo Traverso, Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr)

Release date

2006-01-23

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

George Sand

George Sand

1804–1876

A fearless French novelist of the Romantic era, she wrote with unusual freedom about love, society, and country life. Her books helped make her one of the most famous and widely read women writers of 19th-century Europe.

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