Les Malheurs de Sophie

Par Comtesse Ségur (de)

Une édition de référence des Malheurs de Sophie de la Comtesse de Ségur, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques.
« Une autre chose que Sophie désirait beaucoup, c’était d’avoir des sourcils très épais. On avait dit un jour devant elle que la petite Louise de Berg serait jolie si elle avait des sourcils. Sophie en avait peu et ils étaient blonds, de sorte qu’on ne les voyait pas beaucoup. Elle avait entendu dire aussi que, pour faire épaissir et grandir les cheveux, il fallait les couper souvent.Sophie se regarda un jour à la glace, et trouva que ses sourcils étaient trop maigres. […] »(Extrait du Chapitre VIII.)

• Langue: Français
• Éditeur: Primento Digital
• Date de sortie: 1 janv. 2012
• ISBN: 9782806238252

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My edition of this rather delightful book is dated 1892 and was once owned by an Aileen Frank at Miss Burke's School. Given to me by a friend back in 1971 or 1972, and carried from house to house until its more-than-a-century-old binding is in tatters, I finally got around to reading Les Malheurs de Sophie.

Les Malheurs de Sophie is a 19th century French children's book, not a novel but rather a series of episodes intended to instruct. These are moral lessons, though much more amusing and less didactically dull than most. Sophie is a privileged girl and oh so naughty. She repeatedly disobeys her mother Mme de Rean. (As Sophie says, "It's so boring to obey!") After each of her many mishaps, she is contrite and promises to never again cause an accident or unfortunate event by indulging in one of "her ideas." Paul is Sophie's cousin, best friend, and often reluctant collaborator. He is as obedient and "good" as Sophie is disobedient and "bad." He often tries to save her from her own folly and, thus, spare her the scolding and punishment that is certain to be her due. Many of Sophie's misdeeds involve unwitting cruelty to animals, particularly a pet turtle and a much-prized donkey. It is easy to lose sight of the fact that Sophie is only 4 years old and Paul 6 since they enjoy a freedom of movement and range of activity(even though closely minded by maids and mothers)that would be foreign to most contemporary American four-year-olds.

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