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Mademoiselle Giraud, My Wife - My Wife (Paperback)
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Mademoiselle Giraud, My Wife - My Wife (Paperback)
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Mademoiselle Giraud, My Wife (1870) is a novel by Adolphe Belot.
Written at the height of his career as a popular playwright, the
novel proved immensely popular and caused a stir with its depiction
of homosexuality. Recognized today as an important work of French
literature and in the history of sexuality, Mademoiselle Giraud, My
Wife is a highly original, frequently funny, and ultimately tragic
work of fiction from an underappreciated writer of nineteenth
century France. Having forged a life of success and financial
security for himself as a businessman, Adrien returns to Paris to
find a wife. Singularly obsessed with tying his fate to a
respectable woman, he finds himself struggling to remain realistic
in his standards. Just when he thinks he will remain a bachelor for
the rest of his days, Adrien meets the beautiful Paule Giraud, a
friend of the influential Countess Berthe de Blangy. After a brief
courtship, he marries Giraud only to find himself rejected in the
bedroom. As he succumbs to jealousy and suspicion, Adrien becomes
abusive and petulant, eventually leaving his wife in Paris for the
city of Nice. There, he meets the Count de Blangy, who reveals to
the unsuspecting husband the secret of his wife's sexual habits:
for years, she has engaged in a lesbian affair with her friend
Berthe. Enraged and dumbfounded, Adrien hatches a plan with the
Count to separate their wives and punish them for their sexual
deviancy. Tragic and scandalous, Mademoiselle Giraud, My Wife was a
bestselling story of homosexuality told from the point of view of
an author who clearly possessed his society's reprehensibly
oppressive views on sex and gender. Regardless, Belot's novel
remains an important landmark in the historical representation of
homosexuality in literature. With a beautifully designed cover and
professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Adolphe Belot's
Mademoiselle Giraud, My Wife is a classic work of French literature
reimagined for modern readers.
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