Les deux nigauds

Synopsis of Les deux nigauds

«Les deux nigauds» is the children's novel by Sophie, comtesse de Ségur, published by Casterman in hardback (186 pages, in French).

Innocent and Simplicie think only of going to Paris. Accompanied by their maid Prudence, the two boys leave the quiet country life and head for the capital, where they experience an odyssey of mishaps that makes them long for their former peaceful existence.

The first edition of the work was published in 1863; this Casterman edition appeared in 1993.

For child and young adult readers, as well as those seeking classics of nineteenth-century French literature.