Maı̂tre Daniel Rock [Master Daniel Rock] (French)

Maı̂tre Daniel Rock [Master Daniel Rock] (French)

Erckmann, Emile and Alexandre Chatrian

Paris: Hetzel, 1861

HathiTrust

1861

George Eliot to Mrs. Richard Congreve, 9 August 1873. “We left home on the 23d of June, with a sketch of a journey in our minds which included Grenoble, the Grande Chartreuse, Aix les Bains, Chambéry, and Geneva. The last place I wished to get to, because my friend Mme. d'Albert is not likely to live much longer, and I thought that I should like to see her once more. But during a short stay at Fontainebleau I began to feel that lengthy railway journeys were too formidable for us old weak creatures, and, moreover, that July and August were not the best months for those southern regions. We were both shattered, and needed quiet rather than the excitement of seeing friends and acquaintances – an excitement of which we had been having too much at home -- so we turned aside by easy stages to the Vosges, and spent about three weeks at Plombières and Luxeuil. We shall carry home many pleasant memories of our journey -- of Fontainebleau, for example, which I had never seen before; then of the Vosges, where we count on going again. Erckmann-Chatrian's books had been an introduction to the lovely region; and several of them were our companions there.” GEL 5: 426. “Among the stories noted in GHL's Diary in July are Les Contes des bords du Rhin, Maître Daniel Rock, La Maison forestière, Hugues-le-loup, Le Juif polonais, Les Deux frères, and Le Sousmaître.” GEL 5: 830f. 

Erckmann, Emile and Alexandre Chatrian, Maı̂tre Daniel Rock [Master Daniel Rock] (French), George Eliot's Reading, George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett. https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org, Accessed September 7, 2026. https://georgeeliotarchive.org/items/show/57565

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