French Pictures in English Chalk: Our Rough, Red Candidate. Our Secret Society. Le Ministre Malgr? Lui. Our New Bishop

E. C. Grenville Murray

ISBN 10: 0461365634 / ISBN 13: 9780461365634

Published by HardPress, 2021

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: French Pictures in English Chalk: Our Rough, Red Candidate. Our Secret Society. Le Ministre Malgr? Lui. Our New Bishop
• Publisher: HardPress
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0461365634
• ISBN 13: 9780461365634
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

French Pictures In English Chalk: Our Rough, Red Candidate. Our Secret Society. Le Ministre Malgré Lui. Our New Bishop by E. C. Grenville Murray. This collection assembles four satirical sketches that lampoon political life in mid-19th-century France. The first piece, Our Rough, Red Candidate, depicts a lively, comic election in the provincial town of Choufleury, where a sharp-witted journalist editor, Martin Boulet, pits the sitting prefect and a trio of rival candidates against the imperial regime, ultimately turning the ballot into a dramatic city-wide spectacle. Our Secret Society recalls a group of six young radicals who form the Hexametron and attempt a coup D’état in Paris in 1851, only to be crushed by the authorities, their youthful zeal turning to grave reflection. Le Ministre Malgré Lui follows a complacent deputy who, at the urging of a patron, contemplates accepting a ministerial appointment, faces political pressures, and navigates office politics with irony. Our New Bishop satirizes Ville-Rosé’s episcopal politics as a mock petition is crafted for a new bishop, mixing pretension, wit, and communal life in a small town under the empire. The volume blends political critique, farce, and social caricature, offering a witty portrait of power and culture in Restoration-to-Second-Imperial France.