A Chambermaid's Diary: The Houses She Has Worked In
Octave Mirbeau
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by Édouard Manet, Jean-François Millet and Gustave Caillebotte. A servant's diary of the houses she has worked in: the masters who pursue her, the mistresses who count the linen, and a coachman with something in his past. Mirbeau published it in 1900 to appal the bourgeoisie and succeeded; it has been filmed by Renoir and Buñuel since. The comedy is savage and the class anger under it never rests. Fifty-eight plates of kitchens, servants and rural labour by painters from Chardin to Caillebotte give the domestic world behind the diary its own history.
Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by Édouard Manet, Jean-François Millet and Gustave Caillebotte. A servant's diary of the houses she has worked in: the masters who pursue her, the mistresses who count the linen, and a coachman with something in his past. Mirbeau published it in 1...
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Octave Mirbeau (1848–1917) was a French journalist and novelist, anarchist by conviction, who defended Van Gogh and Maeterlinck before anyone else and wrote books calculated to offend the class he was born into. He succeeded.
Octave Mirbeau (1848–1917) was a French journalist and novelist, anarchist by conviction, who defended Van Gogh and Maeterlinck before anyone else and wrote books calculated to offend the class he was born into. He succeeded.
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