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Thérèse Desqueyroux (French pronunciation: [teʁɛz dɛskɛʁu]) is a 1927 French novel by François Mauriac. Plot [ edit ] The novel is set in the Landes , a sparsely populated area of south-west France covered largely with pine forests.
In 1906, in Mauriac's home town of Bordeaux, a young woman named Blanche Canaby was put on trial for attempting to poison her husband, but found guilty only of a lesser charge. Two decades later, Mauriac used the case as inspiration for his most famous novel, Thérèse Desqueyroux.
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Thérèse Desqueyroux [t e ʁ ɛ z d e s k e ʁ u ː] [1] est un livre de François Mauriac paru en 1927. En 1950 , ce roman fut inclus dans la liste du Grand prix des Meilleurs romans du demi-siècle [ 2 ] .
The story starts with Thérèse Desqueyroux acquitted for the crime, though we soon learn that she is, in fact, guilty, her husband, Bernard, having perjured himself and her father having hired an expensive lawyer, in both cases to avoid scandal and save the reputation of the family.
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Apr 30, 2002 · Thérèse Desqueyroux is the first and the most famous of François Mauriac’s stories about the dark woman, but there are three sequels. Thérèse and the Doctor and Thérèse at the Hotel are both short stories, vignettes if you will.
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Nobel Prize (1952) Notable Works: “The Kiss to the Leper”. “Thérèse Desqueyroux”. “Vipers’ Tangle”. François Mauriac (born Oct. 11, 1885, Bordeaux, France—died Sept. 1, 1970, Paris) was a novelist, essayist, poet, playwright, journalist, and winner in 1952 of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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