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Michael Kohlhaas | Heinrich von Kleist
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I started the tagged novella this morning. With a MC being unfairly treated, I can feel that it is not going to be good for my blood pressure!
This is my 1st von Kleist work, chosen because it's a classic, it's free to download, the theme appeals, and the author spent some time in Fort de Joux (which is in #Doubs, the département that I am focusing on in 2025).
I might watch the Mads Mikkelsen film later. ⬇

Dilara Ideally, I would have read a work actually set in Joux or Doubs, or written while he was imprisoned there, but I couldn't find anything. 3w
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Still on my #Doubs Challenge. Tagged book is a play imagining a conversation between Napoléon Bonaparte and Toussaint Louverture right before his death at the Fort de Joux where he was imprisoned following the Haiti Revolution. I wish it had been a bit better. This is the only fiction work I found about Toussaint Louverture in Joux, which is surprising but there you are. Beggars can't be choosers.

Dilara Pic composite with the Fort de Joux (Doubs, France) and a bust of Toussaint Louverture in his cell in Joux 2mo
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September 1944 in a village in Eastern France: nazis are retreating & neverending columns of soldiers pass through Ferdinand's village. One soldier commands him to give him his bicycle. Only he needs it, worked hard for it. In the heat of the moment, he injures & ties up this almost child. The book describes the quandary & subsequent actions. An easy read (linguistically, not psychologically) that makes you think.
1 for the 2025 #Doubs challenge

Dilara Pic of lock, Doubs river and bridge, Roset-Fluans (JGS25, CC BY 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons) that to my mind, looks very much like what is described in the book 2mo
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De Goupil à Margot | Louis Pergaud
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In 2025, I will be reading books set in, or written by authors with a strong connection to the #Doubs département (nb 25), starting with the tagged title by Louis Pergaud, whose complete works I found on my grandparents' shelves when we emptied their house. In the book was a dedication dated 31-01-1975 I hadn't noticed before 😲

It received the Prix Goncourt in 1910, 5 years before Pergaud's death near Verdun, during the First World War.