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In Gilded Youth, Kate Cambor paints a portrait of a generation lost in upheaval. While France weathered social unrest, violent crime, the birth of modern psychology, and the dawn of World War I, these three young adults (Léon Daudet, Jean-Baptiste Charcot, and Jeanne Hugo) experienced the disorientation of a generation forced to discover that the faith in science and progress that had sustained their fathers had failed them. --from publisher description… (más)
Gilded Youth is a fascinating cultural history that spans the rise and fall of France’s Third Republic, from Napoleon III’s defeat in the Franco Prussian War through the disorienting changes brought by WWI, until the early days of the Vichy Government during WWII. It tells its stories by examining the lives and families of three childhood friends whose fathers or grandfather were luminaries of their time, celebrated for their achievements in literature and science. With the world rapidly changing as a new century began, the three friends struggled to adjust their lives.
Jeanne Hugo, the beloved granddaughter of Victor Hugo, had trouble adapting to a world where she was no longer the center of attention simply by virtue of being a Hugo. Leon Daudet, son of author Alphonse Daudet, became a writer like his father but his writings were more political than literary, endorsing anti-Semitism, the restoration of the rule of kings, and the re-elevation of the Catholic Church. Jean-Baptiste Charcot was my favorite. His father, Jean-Martin Charcot, was a renowned neurologist who mentored Sigmund Freud, and though Jean-Baptiste wanted to please his father by entering the medical field himself, he couldn’t help but be enticed by the adventure of the sea and he eventually became a polar explorer.
I enjoyed this book enough to buy my own copy, even though I started reading it as a library book. I know I will be referencing it in the future.
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We are a cursed generation, which is fated to experience its coming-of-age as a series of frightening and grand events whose repercussions will pervade the remainder of our lives. --Paul Valéry (1922)
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For my parents, Kathleen and Glenn, and my brother, Peter
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To any passerby on the street, it looked like another lively evening at the Cafe du Croissant, a popular hangout for journalists whose offices dotted the busy rue Montmartre neighborhood.
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The danger of being a halfhearted individual in these times in which we live...is that one risks quickly becoming spineless. There is a weakness, I would go so far as to say a cowardice, in moderation, and this comes from these tragic hours.--Leon Daudet, in Le Gaulois(1901)
Our vanquished generation was sad, disillusioned, sardonic, and, finally, powerless...The young people who speak and write today doubt that there could really be any mysterious links between the deplorable social state that they encounter and the literature of their elders.--article in Le Figaro(1897)
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It was within this perfect storm of anxiety and opportunity, despair and determination, that Leon, Jean-Baptiste, and Jeanne waged their struggle for self-determination, battling with demons and public expectations to be both worthy of and free from their gilded legacies.
In Gilded Youth, Kate Cambor paints a portrait of a generation lost in upheaval. While France weathered social unrest, violent crime, the birth of modern psychology, and the dawn of World War I, these three young adults (Léon Daudet, Jean-Baptiste Charcot, and Jeanne Hugo) experienced the disorientation of a generation forced to discover that the faith in science and progress that had sustained their fathers had failed them. --from publisher description
Jeanne Hugo, the beloved granddaughter of Victor Hugo, had trouble adapting to a world where she was no longer the center of attention simply by virtue of being a Hugo. Leon Daudet, son of author Alphonse Daudet, became a writer like his father but his writings were more political than literary, endorsing anti-Semitism, the restoration of the rule of kings, and the re-elevation of the Catholic Church. Jean-Baptiste Charcot was my favorite. His father, Jean-Martin Charcot, was a renowned neurologist who mentored Sigmund Freud, and though Jean-Baptiste wanted to please his father by entering the medical field himself, he couldn’t help but be enticed by the adventure of the sea and he eventually became a polar explorer.
I enjoyed this book enough to buy my own copy, even though I started reading it as a library book. I know I will be referencing it in the future.