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18-597: La Vagabonde may refer to: The Vagabond (novel) , a 1910 novel by the French writer Colette La Vagabonde (trail) , a cycling route ( Route Verte ) in Quebec La Vagabonde , catamaran sailed by creators of YouTube channel Sailing La Vagabonde See also [ edit ] Le Vagabond or The Littlest Hobo , a Canadian film and television series Vagabond (disambiguation) Topics referred to by

36-470: A contract for a six-week tour with Brague, her mentor, and his pupil. Now she must decide between Maxime and her career, as she recognizes that she cannot allow him to accompany her and is not yet ready to give up the wandering life, which somehow suits her. She then lies, promising to give herself to Maxime, but not until the tour is over. Renée leaves Paris, full of both hope and regret. Renée travels from place to place, writing letters to Maxime which make up

54-512: A long career as an author of novels, biographies, histories, children's books and science fiction stories. He is buried in Neuilly-sur-Seine community cemetery near Paris. Maurois's first wife was Jeanne-Marie Wanda de Szymkiewicz, a young Polish-Russian aristocrat who had studied at Oxford University . She had a nervous breakdown in 1918 and in 1924 she died of sepsis . After his father died, Maurois stopped working in textiles (in

72-573: A music-hall performer for the past three years. She checks her make-up in the mirror, then goes to perform, confident and controlled. Renée’s life as an artist is described: her work as a dancer, her casual relations with her fellow performers, the small apartment that she shares with her maid, Blandine and her dog Fossette, and her introduction to Maxime Dufferein-Chautel. Maxime presents himself at her dressing-room door one evening, and Renée dismisses him as an awkward intruder, charming and respectful as he seems to be. She more formally meets him again after

90-642: A point of acknowledging with thanks his debt to Pétain in his 1941 autobiography, Call no man happy – though by the time of writing their paths had sharply diverged, Pétain having become Head of State of Vichy France . When World War II began, he was appointed the French Official Observer attached to the British General Headquarters. In this capacity he accompanied the British Army to Belgium. He knew personally

108-449: A private engagement arranged by his brother. Night after night, Renée’s admirer watches her from the front row and patiently waits for her. With her old friend Hamond acting as a go-between, Renée and Maxime become slowly closer. Maxime visits her; and Renée acknowledges that she has an admirer, but nothing more. Eventually, their acquaintance deepens, but not into intimacy, despite Maxime’s desires otherwise. This continues until Renée signs

126-402: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages The Vagabond (novel) Renée Néré is introduced in her music-hall dressing room anxiously preparing for a performance. It is revealed that Renée and her husband have divorced after eight years of her husband’s faithlessness and cruelty, and that Renée has been struggling to support herself as

144-720: The French army and served as an interpreter for Lieutenant Colonel Winston Churchill (according to Martin Gilbert in Churchill and the Jews , Henry Holt and Company, New York, 2007) and later a liaison officer with the British army . His first novel, Les silences du colonel Bramble , was a witty and socially realistic account of that experience. It was an immediate success in France. It

162-580: The Javal family , Maurois was the son of Ernest Herzog, a Jewish textile manufacturer, and his wife Alice Lévy-Rueff. His family had fled Alsace after the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71 and took refuge in Elbeuf, where they owned a woollen mill. As noted by Maurois, the family brought their entire Alsatian workforce with them to the relocated mill, for which Maurois' grandfather was admitted to

180-509: The Legion of Honour for having "saved a French industry". This family background is reflected in Maurois' Bernard Quesnay : the story of a young World War I veteran with artistic and intellectual inclinations who is drawn, much against his will, to work as a director in his grandfather's textile mills – a character clearly having many autobiographical elements. During World War I he joined

198-404: The 1926 novel Bernard Quesnay he in effect described an alternative life of himself, in which he would have plunged into the life of a textile industrialist and given up everything else). Maurois's second wife was Simone de Caillavet, daughter of playwright Gaston Arman de Caillavet and actress Jeanne Pouquet, and granddaughter of Anatole France 's mistress Léontine Arman de Caillavet . After

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216-411: The book's English translation, but wrote: "It is a pity that its title has had to be transliterated. What 'La Vagabonde' means, of course, is 'The Wanderer,' as Renee Nere points out when considering second marriage: 'I shall have everything ... and I shall lean over the edge of a white terrace smothered with the roses of my gardens and shall see the lords of the earth, the wanderers, pass by!'" Keene ended

234-643: The main politicians in the French government, and on 10 June 1940 he was sent on a mission to London. After the Armistice ended that mission, Maurois was demobilised and travelled from England to Canada. He wrote of these experiences in his book Tragedy in France . Later in World War II he served in the French army and the Free French Forces . His Maurois pseudonym became his legal name in 1947. He died in 1967 in Neuilly-sur-Seine after

252-409: The narrative. These letters are sprinkled with accounts of performances, and thoughts about her relationship with him. The book ends with her final letter to him and the thoughts that she directs toward him as she leaves the letter are unfinished. Frances Keene called The Vagabond an "enchanting, sincere and beautifully constructed novel" in a 1955 review for The New York Times . Keene complimented

270-644: The review: "Colette has the natural sober tone, the importance attached to feelings, the graceful brevity which Maurois once said 'define one of the forms of the French novel.' But above all her occasional hoarse cry of loss voices the complex anguish of our time." In 2011, James Hopkin wrote about The Vagabond for The Guardian : "Has the novel dated in the course of a century? Not at all. There's enough energy and inventiveness here to blow away any dusty hints of antiquarian charm. And for years I've been telling people that no one writes about relationships as perceptively as Colette." In light of its recurring focus on

288-420: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title La Vagabonde . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=La_Vagabonde&oldid=925944319 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

306-662: The world of performance and the experience of performers, William McEvoy has discussed The Vagabond as theatre-fiction . Andr%C3%A9 Maurois André Maurois ( French: [mɔʁwa] ; born Émile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog ; 26 July 1885 – 9 October 1967) was a French author. Maurois was born on 26 July 1885 in Elbeuf and educated at the Lycée Pierre Corneille in Rouen , both in Normandy . A member of

324-544: Was translated and became popular in the United Kingdom and other English-speaking countries as The Silence of Colonel Bramble . Many of his other works have also been translated into English, for they often dealt with British people or topics, such as his biographies of Disraeli , Byron , and Shelley . In 1938 Maurois was elected to the prestigious Académie française . He was encouraged and assisted in seeking this membership by Marshal Philippe Pétain , and he made

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