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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.
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Mar 31, 2015 · Mirbeau's writing holds up well, however, and there's still enough to all this to amuse and entertain contemporary readers. French author Octave Mirbeau lived 1858 to 1917. A review, and links to other information about and reviews of The Diary of a Chambermaid by Octave Mirbeau.
- Octave Mirbeau
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- 1900 (Eng. 1966)
Apr 1, 2023 · The diary of a chambermaid : a naughty French novel by Mirbeau, Octave, 1848-1917. Publication date 2007 ... Be the first one to write a review. ...
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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.
But a man like Monsiuer?" -- from THE DIARY OF A CHAMBERMAID The famous anarchist and art critic Octave Mirbeau (1848-1917) inspired not one but two films (from Jean Renoir and Louis Bunuel) with his often forgotten classic THE DIARY OF A CHAMBERMAID.
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...
