Lovely little Adèle! She's unknowingly giving us an amazing example on how in the late 18th century childhood started gradually to be regarded as a long, special period in life, and it was no longer thought that children from the age of 7-8 should behave as small copies of adults.
These memoirs are simply amazing. I can just picture la petite Adèle recounting the play to the King, with that wonderful unselfconsciousness of children. What a great read!
Lovely little Adèle! She's unknowingly giving us an amazing example on how in the late 18th century childhood started gradually to be regarded as a long, special period in life, and it was no longer thought that children from the age of 7-8 should behave as small copies of adults.
These memoirs are simply amazing. I can just picture la petite Adèle recounting the play to the King, with that wonderful unselfconsciousness of children. What a great read!
I agree. I can't understand why they've never been re-printed in English since the original 1907 edition.