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Sébastien Roch

Name: Sébastien Roch
Author: Octave Mirbeau

Octave MirbeauOriginal title Sébastien Roch (French, 1890)

Sébastien Roch is a novel written by the French journalist, novelist and playwright Octave Mirbeau, and published by Charpentier in 1890. Last French edition : L'Age d'Homme, 2011.

“Schools are miniature universes. They encompass, on a child’s scale, the same kind of domination and repression as the most despotically organised societies. A similar sort of injustice and comparable baseness preside over their choice of idols to elevate and martyrs to torment.”

Octave Mirbeau book Sébastien Roch

Sébastien Roch

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