by Michel Peyramaure · Pocket · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782266069472
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«L'orange de Noël» is the historical novel by Michel Peyramaure, published by Pocket in paperback (298 pages, in French).
In 1913, young teacher Cécile Brunie arrives in Saint-Roch, in Lower Corrèze, where the priest and a Catholic school impose their rule. Despite hostility, she withstands insults and slander, wins over the village and fills her school. Her greatest victory: getting Malvina Delpeuch, a girl considered to have learning difficulties, to obtain her school certificate.
The novel was adapted into a movie in 1996.
For readers of historical and rural fiction, interested in France in 1913 and in secular schooling.
Michel Peyramaure was a French writer. He received the 1979 Grand prix de littérature de la SGDL.
