Poil De Carotte Les Poules

specialized in frustrated desire in what he called his ‘théâtre d’amour’, and depicted love as a physical enslavement (La Chance de Françoise, 1887). The tranche de vie is psychological in the case of Jules Renard (1844–1910: Le Pain de ménage, 1898; Poil de carotte, 1900; Monsieur Vernet, 1903) but tended more frequently to social realism which revealed the ills of society in a mood which combined cynicism with strong moral judgements. La Vie politique (1901), by Émile Fabre (1869–1955), was a savage attack