Countess of Ségur

The Comtesse de Ségur Sophie ( Sophie Countess of Ségur ) ( born August 1, 1799 in St. Petersburg, † February 9, 1874 in Paris), born in Sofia Rostoptschina Fyodorovna (Russian Софья Фёдоровна Ростопчина ), a French writer and daughter of the Russian General Fyodor Vasilyevich Rostopchin and the Minister.

Life

Sophie de Ségur in 1817 moved with her family from Russia to France. 1819 she married the Comte de Ségur Eugène. 1822 bought the Comte Nouettes the castle in Aube ( Basse -Normandie ) and Sophie de Ségur lived there with their children. In 1856 she began to publish novels. 1872 Nouettes sold and moved to Paris.

As a children's author, the Mémoires d'un âne ( "Memories of a donkey " ) were her most successful book. Also famous are their fairy tales ( '' Nouveaux Contes de fées ). Her early work Les Misfortunes of Sophie is popular today.

Works

  • Nouveaux Contes de fées pour les petits enfants (contains Histoire de blonde, de Bonne- Biche et de Beau- Minon, Le bon petit Henri, La petite souris grise and Ourson ), Paris 1857
  • Les Misfortunes of Sophie, Paris 1859
  • Ségur ( Sophie ) Countess of (b. Rostopchine ). Russian and German. After the French. Fourth Edition. With woodcuts by Emil Bayard. Freiburg, Herder, 1899

Works in German translation

  • New fairy tales ( Nouveaux Contes de fées ), Leipzig: Avox Publishing, 2013, ISBN 978-3-936979-07-7 ( with 21 Illustrations by Virginia Frances Sterrett ). Translated and edited by Ulrich Taschow. Contains Blonde and the Enchanted Forest Lilac, Little Henri and the plant of life, Princess Rosette and Prince Charming, the wicked little mouse Ourson the bear cub.
  • New fairy tales (eBook ), Leipzig: Avox Publishing, 2013, ISBN 978-3-936979-08-4.
  • Adventure of the donkey Cadichon ( Mémoires d'un âne ), Leipzig: Verlag Avox, 2013, ISBN 978-3-936979-11-4 ( with 52 illustrations by Horace Castelli Translated and edited by Ulrich Taschow free. .
  • Sophie and other disasters. Tragicomic stories for bright kids and parents (Les Misfortunes of Sophie par la Comtesse de Ségur Sophie, Paris 1858), Leipzig: Avox Publishing, 2013, ISBN 978-3-936979-13-8 ( with 52 illustrations by Horace Castelli Translated and free. edited by Ulrich Taschow.

Werkausgabe

  • Oeuvre de la Comtesse de Ségur Romanesque, born Rostopchine, complet en 20 volumes. Avec illustrations. Genève, Edito Service - Jean- Jacques Pauvert, nd Reproduction de l' édition de la Bibliothèque rose illustrée du XIXe siècle..

Content:

  • L' Auberge de l'ange gardien,
  • La fortune de Gaspard,
  • Après la pluie le beau temps,
  • Diloy le chemineau,
  • Comédies et proverbes,
  • Le général Dourakine,
  • Les Bons Enfants,
  • Quel amour d' enfant,
  • Les deux nigauds,
  • Les malheurs de Sophie,
  • Nouveaux contes de fées,
  • Un bon petit diable,
  • Les petites filles modèles,
  • François le Bossu,
  • La soeur de Gribouille,
  • Mémoires d'un âne,
  • Jean qui grogne, Jean qui rit,
  • Pauvre Blaise,
  • Les vacances,
  • Le Mauvais genie.
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