| Evidence: | '... et lisais les Contes Drolatiqe de nostre feu Maistre de Balzac ...' [and I was reading the amusing stories of our master Balzac] |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 28 Mar 1872 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Edinburgh | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 13 Nov 1850 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | student |
| Religion: | Church of Scotland |
| Country of origin: | Scotland |
| Country of experience: | Scotland |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
letter to Charles Baxter |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Honore de Balzac |
| Title: | Contes Drolatiques |
| Genre: | Classics, Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | first published 1832-7 |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 14549 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Robert Louis Stevenson | |
| Editor: | Bradford Booth | |
| Title: | The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson | |
| Place of Publication: | New Haven and London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1994 | |
| Vol: | 1 | |
| Page: | 219 | |
| Additional comments: | Additional editor Ernest Mehew |
| Citation: | Robert Louis Stevenson, Bradford Booth (ed.), The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson (New Haven and London, 1994), 1, p. 219, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=14549, accessed: 09 December 2023 | |
| Footnote p 219 Booth/Mehew says that here RLS was attempting to imitate Balzac's imitation of Rabelais in his Contes Drolatiques, and that he lapses at times into shaky modern French. |
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