A good little devil

a good Little devil is a novel of 1865, full with humor and moralist with the Comtesse with Ségur.

Summary of the history

The history occurs in Scotland and starts in 1842. The young Charles is raised by the widow Mac' Miche, shrew miserly and tyrannical. To be avenged for the fact that it makes him undergo, Charles plays to him of the rotten tricks, with the complicity of Betty, the maidservant in the large heart.

As soon as it can it, it will see young a 2 year old blind man its elder, Juliette. This one plays the part of the good angel near this little devil.

Drawings of Castelli

The novel was illustrated by Castelli. One sees the old shrew Mac' Miche there ridiculing herself there. One sees also the queue of the young girls to marry whom one proposes in Charles and whom it will refuse.

The character of the Juliette blind man

The oldest son of the countess of Ségur, Gaston, had become completely blind. His/her daughter junior also, Sabine, had also problems of sight.

It seems nevertheless that they are not the source of inspiration of the character of Juliette the blind man. This one resembles rather the prototype of the blind man in the melodrama S such as Charles Chaplin will include it in the Lights of the city. Like François de Nancé, the hero of François uneven the, it accepts its handicap with a very Christian resignation.

Source of inspiration

One finds in this novel the expensive topics with the countess, ill-treatment of childhood, need for mixing affection and Christian morals in the education of the children. It perhaps took as a starting point Charles Dickens, whose novel, David Copperfield (1850) also puts in scene a maidservant, Peggoty, which protects David from the ill treatments of sound beautiful father.

Notice

Telefilm

A telefilm, inspired of this book, was carried out by Jean-Claude Brialy in 1983. Alice Sapritch played there the part of the horrible widow Mac' Miche. It was the type of role in which she excelled.

1.Les fairies 2.L' blind man 3.Une criminal case 4.Le whip; The parafouet marvellous 5.Docility of Charles.Les visors 6.Audace of Charles.Précieuse discovered 7.Nouvelle and invention of Charles sublimates 8.Succès complete 9.Mme Mac' Miche is avenged 10.Dernier exploit of Charles 11.Méfaits of the black man 12.De Charybde in Scylla terrible 13.Enquêt.Derniers processes of Charles 14.Charles makes its conditions. He is delivered 15.Mme Mac' Miche discharges and disappears 16.Mme Mac' Miche spins a bad cotton 17.Bon movement of Charles.Il is forgotten with the cat to 18.Repentir of Charles; Juliette comforts it 19.Charles heir and Owner 20.Deux bad deals of cat tragic 21.Aventure. Very finished well. Charles is corrected 22.Le old Charles reappears and disappears for always 23.Charles major; onlui proposes women; he does not want any of it 24.Les interrogations; what follows 25.Marrianne Marie. Everyone Marie 26.Chacun is put according to its merits

Source

  • the small world of the countess of Ségur by Paul Guérande, 1964, editions Sixteen

External references

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