![]() ![]() ![]() When looking for his brother in the woods, Landry encounters Fadette. He is therefore hurt, and he responds angrily and emotionally to the separation, disappearing into the woods. Sylvinet does not understand how Landry can pretend to want to leave home. Landry tries to hide his distress out of pride, unlike Sylvinet, who cries and is very demonstrative. Due to the family's dire financial straits, one twin has to leave to work in a neighbouring farm, and Landry is chosen. When they are 14 years old, the plot takes a turn. Although they are opposites, with Landry the less emotional, more conventionally strong twin, and Sylvinet, the less physically strong and more emotional one, the twins both love each other more than anything else. Consequently, the twins grow up together. The parents of Landry and Sylvinet, identical twin brothers, who are respectable and relatively rich farmers, do not follow the advice that is given at the twins' birth to keep separating and distinguishing them from each other while they are still young. The novel takes place in the 19th-century French countryside. The novel is one of Sand's best known today. Sand wrote the rural story together with La Mare au Diable and François le Champi in the 1840s as she returned from Paris to the countryside of Châteauroux. A Domestic Story (1851) and Little Fadette (1967), is an 1849 novel written by French novelist George Sand, born Amantine Dupin. La Petite Fadette, also published in English under the titles Little Fadette. ![]()
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