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Musset's most beloved short story (1845) — the canonical portrait of the grisette and a founding text of the Bohemian Paris mythology. If this charming, generous story of Latin Quarter life moved you, these books explore the same world and characters.
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Buy on AmazonScènes de la vie de bohème
by Henri Murger
The canonical Bohemian Paris text — the linked stories of Rodolphe, Musette, Mimi, and their friends that fully develop the world Musset introduces and that became the source for Puccini's La Bohème.
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Buy on AmazonLes Deux Maîtresses
by Alfred de Musset
The companion novella from Musset's prose fiction — the same Latin Quarter world seen from the angle of romantic ambivalence rather than generous simplicity.
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Frère et Sœur
by Alfred de Musset
Musset's most restrained and moving prose story — a complement to Mimi Pinson that shows the same capacity for simple, direct feeling in a more serious emotional register.
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Buy on AmazonManon Lescaut
by Abbé Prévost
The great eighteenth-century precursor to the grisette tradition — the story of a young woman of simple origins who becomes both loved and destructive, which shapes the French literary mythology of the free-spirited young woman.
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Frédéric et Bernerette
by Alfred de Musset
Musset's other grisette story from the same period — Bernerette is a different kind of grisette from Mimi Pinson, more suffering and less charmed, which shows the range of the type in Musset's fiction.
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Buy on AmazonL'Éducation sentimentale
by Gustave Flaubert
Flaubert's great novel of Bohemian Paris and the generation of 1848 — the full realistic treatment of the world that Mimi Pinson romanticizes, including the seamstresses and grisettes of the Latin Quarter.
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Mimì
by Giacomo Puccini
La Bohème (1896) — the opera that makes Murger's Mimi immortal, herself a seamstress named Mimi like Musset's character; the definitive transformation of the grisette mythology into a universal story.
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Buy on AmazonBel-Ami
by Guy de Maupassant
Maupassant's great novel of Paris ambition — the realistic counterpart to the grisette mythology, showing the same world of young Parisians without money from the angle of the climber rather than the generous-hearted.
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