- Ernestine Chassebœuf
Ernestine Chassebœuf (
née Troispoux) (1910-2005) was a French letter writer.Life
Ernestine Chassebœuf spent all her life in
Anjou . Born inBotz-en-Mauges , she married in 1928 Edmond Chassebœuf, who died in 1970. She stayed most of her life in Coutures, inMaine-et-Loire , where she took care of her garden and her chickens.In 1999, she began to write letters denouncing in a truculent and naive style inefficiencies and inequities.
Alain Rémond and Jean Lebrun enable her to gain a little notoriety. Especially at the occasion of the debate about free lending of books in libraries, she wrote to all the writers who had signed thepetition demanding the withdrawal of their books in public libraries until an agreement has been found. After this start, she continued to write to people in the economic, political, and literary world or in the media, her common sense and frankness highlighted inconsistencies and mediocrity in the French society.Works
* "The wheelbarrow and the two orphans". Letters on the right lending library, Vauchrétien: I. Davy ; Angers : Éd. Deleatur , 2000 Davy; Angers: Ed. 2000
* [http://ginkgo-editeur.com/couv/ernest1.jpg"Ernestine writes everywhere"] , Volume 1 (1999) Paris, [http://ginkgo-editeur.com/biloba.html Ginkgo] , 2004, ISBN 9782846790154
* " [http://www.ginkgo-editeur.fr/couv/ernest2.jpgErnestine writes everywhere] ", Volume 2 Paris, Ginkgo, 2004, ISBN 9782846790215
* " [http://www.ginkgo-editeur.fr/couv/ernest3.jpgErnestine writes everywhere] ", Volume 3 (Correspondence 2000-2005), Paris, Ginkgo publisher, 2005. ISBN 9782846790345Persondata
NAME=Chasseboeuf, Ernestine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=Troispoux, Ernestine (maiden name)
SHORT DESCRIPTION=French letter writer
DATE OF BIRTH=1910
PLACE OF BIRTH=Botz-en-Mauges ,France
DATE OF DEATH=2005
PLACE OF DEATH=Anjou ,France
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