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Sources of Fromentin's Dominique

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

S. A. Rhodes
S. A. Rhodes*
Affiliation:
College of the City of New York
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In the Revue Politique et Littéraire, M. G. Pailhès uncovers an early model for Fromentin's Dominique in the Edouard of Mme de Duras, published in 1825. His evidence for a relationship between these two novels seems rather conclusive, despite the futile efforts of M. Pierre Blanchon to refute it. His results, however, are not wholly conclusive because in his search for original sources he stops midway. The original source, common to both Edouard and Dominique, is to be found, I believe, in Mme de Krüdener's Valérie, published in 1803. Though Fromentin, undoubtedly, remembered Edouard in writing Dominique, he must have thought of Valérie even more, for his novel is in all respects more like the latter than like the former.

Type
Research Article
Information
PMLA , Volume 45 , Issue 3 , September 1930 , pp. 939 - 949
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1930

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References

1 March 13th and 19th 1909.

2 Ibid. June 5th and 12th 1909.

3 Veillées Littéraires illustrées, J. Bry ainé ed. Edouard, p. 19.

4 Dominique, Plon ed. p. 82.

5 Valérie, Lettre III.

6 Edouard p. 10.

7 Dominique p. 181.

8 Valérie, lettre XXXVI.

9 Dominique, p. 204.

10 Edouard, p. 15.

11 Valérie, lettre VII.

12 Dominique p. 242.

13 Valérie, lettre XXXVIII.

14 Dominique p. 211.

15 Valérie, lettre XXII.

16 Dominique, pp. 160-161.

17 Valérie, lettre XLI.

18 Dominique, pp. 225-227.

19 Edouard p. 17.

20 Valérie, lettre XLII.

21 Dominique p. 273-274.

22 Valérie, lettre XV.

23 Dominique, p. 276.

24 Edouard, p. 17.

25 Valérie, lettre XLII.

26 Dominique, p. 289-290.

27 Edouard, p. 24.

28 Valérie, lettres XXXII-XXXIII.

29 Dominique, p. 309.

30 Edouard, p. 21.

31 Valérie, lettre XLII.

32 Dominique, p. 305.

33 Edouard, p. 17.

34 Valérie, lettre XLII.