The Village Rector
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The Country Parson opens with a picturesque portrait of the house in Limoges which became the Sauviat shop and home. Jerome-Baptiste Sauviat is an Auvergnat peddlar specializing in metal. In 1797, at around age fifty and tired of travelling, he married the daughter of a coppersmith named Champagnac. Madame Sauviat, also from Auvergne, was around thirty at the time of their marriage. Both were rough and strong. Though neither could read, when it came to business, both were excellent in arithmetic. Both were religious and freely gave to the parish though they were extremely frugal in their daily...
Chapters (28)(click to expand)
- THE VILLAGE RECTOR
- Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
- THE VILLAGE RECTOR
- ADDENDUM
- THE VILLAGE RECTOR
- I. THE SAUVIATS
- II. VERONIQUE
- III. MARRIAGE
- IV. THE HISTORY OF MANY MARRIED WOMEN IN THE PROVINCES
- V. TASCHERON
- VI. DISCUSSIONS AND CHRISTIAN SOLICITUDES
- VII. MONTEGNAC
- VIII. THE RECTOR OF MONTEGNAC
- IX. DENISE
- X. THIRD PHASE OF VERONIQUE’S LIFE
- XI. THE RECTOR AT WORK
- XII. THE SOUL OF FORESTS
- XIII. FARRABESCHE
- XIV. THE TORRENT OF THE GABOU
- XV. STORY OF A GALLEY-SLAVE
- XVI. CONCERNS ONE OF THE BLUNDERS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
- XVII. THE REVOLUTION OF JULY JUDGED AT MONTEGNAC
- XVIII. CATHERINE CURIEUX
- XIX. A DEATH BLOW
- XX. THE LAST STRUGGLE
- XXI. CONFESSION AT THE GATES OF THE TOMB
- ADDENDUM
- The following personages appear in other stories of the Human Comedy.
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