Author | Maurice Barrès |
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Translator | Frances Wilson Huard |
Language | French |
Publisher | Juven |
Publication date | 1909 |
Publication place | France |
Published in English | 1918 |
Pages | 258 |
Colette Baudoche is a 1909 novel by the French writer Maurice Barrès. It has the subtitle The Story of a Young Girl of Metz ( French: Histoire d'une jeune fille de Metz). The story is set in Lorraine right after the Franco-Prussian War 1870–1871, and focuses on the courtship between a young French woman and a German professor. The book was adapted into the 1994 short film Lothringen! by Straub–Huillet. [1]