A New Portrait of the Comtesse de Ségur, Read as a Child-Rearing Authority of Her Time
In a biography of the author of "Les Malheurs de Sophie," Véronique de Bure draws a comparison to Françoise Dolto, the pediatrician and psychoanalyst who shaped generations of French parenting.
Bibliobs, the books section of Le Nouvel Obs, has published an interview with Véronique de Bure about her new biography of Sophie Rostopchine, the Comtesse de Ségur, author of the beloved "Malheurs de Sophie." In the interview, de Bure describes her subject as "la Françoise Dolto de l'époque" — the Dolto of her time — a reference to the pediatrician and psychoanalyst whose advice on child-rearing shaped generations of French parents in the twentieth century.
According to the summary published by Bibliobs, de Bure's book portrays the Comtesse de Ségur as a modern woman with a rigorous discipline of writing, rather than the staid, old-fashioned figure often associated with her nineteenth-century children's classics.
No publisher, release date or further detail about the biography's contents is given in the material available from Bibliobs.
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