La Brière
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For other uses, see Brière (disambiguation).
La Brière (translated as Passion and Peat) is a 1923 novel by Alphonse de Chateaubriant that won the Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française for that year.
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Author | Alphonse de Chateaubriant |
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Original title | La Brière |
Translator | F. Mabel Robinson |
Illustrator | René-Yves Creston (1926) |
Country | France |
Language | French |
Publisher | Butterworth |
Publication date | 1923 |
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The novel is set in the rustic fenland landscape west of Nantes, known as Brière, in which the traditional occupation of peat-cutting is becoming increasingly unsustainable as the peat runs out. The independence of the local population is threatened by outsiders, who have plans for modernisation.