Used book – L'Enfant, Jules Vallès, Pascal Pia

To all who were bored to tears at school or who were made to cry by their families, who, during their childhood, were tyrannized by their teachers or beaten by their parents, I dedicate this book.

Jules Vallès The son of a despised schoolteacher and a narrow-minded peasant woman, Jules Vallès recounts: "My mother says that children should not be spoiled and she whips me every morning. If she doesn't have time in the morning, it's at noon and rarely later than four o'clock." This failed childhood, his political commitment to creating a better world, the insurrection of the Commune, Jules Vallès recalled them, at the end of his life, in a trilogy: L'Enfant, Le Bachelier and L'Insurgé. Jules Vallès's language is extremely modern. Yet, the story of Jacques Vingtras was written in 1875 and it is the story of the unloved of all times!