#Xmas Readig List: Alphonse Daudet
Finish date: 22.11.2024
Genre: 3 Xmas short stories (selected from complete works)
Rating: A
#Christmas Comfort Reads
Good News: Who would have guessed that the Devil would serve as an altar boy for Reverend Dom Balaguère at midnight Mass in the Castle Trinquelgue atop Mount Ventoux? Oh, what is the Devil up to? If you missed it Daudet’s humor: he names the Devil after a famous French cyclist Garrigou…who rode up Mount Ventoux and won the Tour de France 1911.
Good News: You know the expression “Be careful what you wish for” …well M. Majesté, merchant of Seltzer Water, wonders what his Paris Hôtel Particulier (…now serving as place of business) would be like if the mansion was filled 1600s merrimakers attending a Xmas supper (Le Réveillon) there. Enchanting…to go back in time!
Good News: Two friends are recovering from their 1870 war wounds. Bernadou is getting better but Salvette has lost the sprit to live. Bernadou helps his friend celebrate Christmas…even as he lay in his hospital bed.
Personal: Simple, short “good feeling” stories from one of France’s beloved writers, Alphonse Daudet. After a rough month of politics (November 2024) I want to end my reading days in November/December with a nice “good feeling” story. I want sugar plums dancing in my head!
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Fun, I didn’t remember some of his stories worked for Christmas
Re-reading “Lettres du mon moulin” in December as ‘good feeling’ books!
I read this when I was 10 or 11. Funny I forgot the Christmas stories!
I like Daudet’s humor…making fun of the priest saying midnight Mass “..ite misa est”..the mass is finally over and the priest can now enjoy Le Réveillon!
Yes, lots of humor.
Actually, “ite missa est” is indeed the official end of every Roman Catholic Mass in Latin.
In English they say. The Mass is ended, go in peace