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Hélène Berr (27 March 1921 – 10 April 1945) was a French Jewish woman, who documented her life in a diary during the time of Nazi occupation of France. In France she is considered to be a "French Anne Frank". [1] She died from typhus during an epidemic of the disease in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp that also killed Anne Frank and her ...
Élisabeth Arrighi Leseur (16 October 1866 – 3 May 1914), born Pauline Élisabeth Arrighi, was a French mystic best known for her spiritual diary and the conversion of her husband, Félix Leseur (1861–1950), a medical doctor and well known leader of the French anti-clerical, atheistic movement. [1]
French Célestine, by Octave Mirbeau Célestine is the main character and the narrator of the French novel by Octave Mirbeau , The Diary of a Chambermaid (fr. Le Journal d'une femme de chambre ), 1900.
The Diary of a Country Priest (French: Journal d'un curé de campagne) is a 1936 novel by the French writer Georges Bernanos. The novel received the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française. [1] In 1950 it was named one of the twelve best novels in the French language published between 1900 and 1950. [2]
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.
A diary is a written or audiovisual memorable record, ... The German Tagebuch ('days-book') is normally rendered as "diary" in English, ...
Emily Pepys (1833–1877), English child diarist (diary 1844–1845) Samuel Pepys (1633–1703), English civil servant (diary 1660–1669) Elizabeth Percy, Duchess of Northumberland (1716–1776), English peeress; Calel Perechodnik (1916–1944), Polish Jewish ghetto policeman and Holocaust victim; Diane Pernet (living), Paris-based American ...
The first English translation of the journal, by David Ball, was published in 2014 under the title Diary of the Dark Years, 1940–1944. [3] According to the translator's introduction, it is "the book French readers have turned to most readily for an account of life under German occupation."