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The Diary of a Chambermaid (French: Le Journal d'une femme de chambre) is a 1900 decadent novel by Octave Mirbeau, published during the Dreyfus Affair. First published in serialized form in L’Écho de Paris from 1891 to 1892, Mirbeau’s novel was reworked and polished before appearing in the Dreyfusard journal La Revue Blanche in 1900.
Feb 14, 2024 · This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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Mar 31, 2015 · The Diary of a Chambermaid is, indeed, presented as a diary, chambermaid Célestine R. beginning her account on 14 September, as she starts a new job, and lasting just to 24 November, when she's moved on again.
- Octave Mirbeau
- The Diary of a Chambermaid
- Novel
- 1900 (Eng. 1966)
Jul 5, 2017 · A Chambermaid's Diary. First published in 1900, "The Diary of a Chambermaid" is a decadent novel written by Octave Mirbeau. It was originally published as a serial between from 1891-2,...
A French chambermaid, who has served in Paris, in the houses of the nobility, the bourgeois, and professional people, finally enters the service of a rich couple living in the country, and there begins to keep a diary.
The novel presents itself as the diary of Mademoiselle Célestine R., a chambermaid. Her first employer fetishizes her boots, and she later discovers the elderly man dead, with one of her boots...
