{"product_id":"9781787475601","title":"Journal 1887-1910","description":"\u003cp\u003eJules Renard was a French literary figure of the late nineteenth century. Not a Parisian but a committed countryman, he was elected mayor in 1904 of the tiny village of Citry-le-Mines in a remote part of northern Burgundy. He had the soul of a rustic bourgeois but the ambition of a metropolitan, and his wife's money allowed him to move in elevated circles, though he seemed an awkward customer, a badger, and looked like one. He wrote fiction, journalism and drama, very successfully, but the Journal is Renard's masterpiece. It constitutes a profusion of entries, without stitching or pattern - mordant reflections on style, literature and theatre; portraits of family, friends and the Parisian literary scene; quasi-ethnographical observations on village life and notations of the natural world which are unlike anything except themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"riverrun","offers":[{"title":"Jules \/ Renard","offer_id":44837050777914,"sku":"9781787475601","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0289\/5334\/6096\/products\/9781787475601.jpg?v=1680344763","url":"https:\/\/goldenharebooks.live\/products\/9781787475601","provider":"Golden Hare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}