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A Life of Her Own
by Emilie Carles
- BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
- 1992
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- 271 PAGES
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This memoir of life in the French Alps was a French bestseller when first published in 1977. Born in 1900, Carnes tells of her childhood, her life on the farm, her career as a teacher and her involvement in political and feminist movements, including a popular campaign to stop a highway proposed for her Alpine valley.
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