by Elvire de Brissac · LGF/Le Livre de Poche · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253155874
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«Ô dix-neuvième !» is the biographical essay by Elvire de Brissac, published by Le Livre de Poche in paperback (410 pages, in French).
Lamartine wonders whether the future will come; the author contrasts his career with that of Eugène Schneider, the industrialist who bought Le Creusot in 1836. The work portrays a nineteenth century of revolutions and spectacles, with the Second Republic, the Second Empire and the changes of steam, railways and steel.
The work won the Prix Femina for essay in 2001; this French paperback edition was published in 2003.
For readers interested in the history of France, biographies of its protagonists and the nineteenth century.
