ties of the time such as La Rochefoucauld, Mme de La the name Seghers), was a milieu study, the next, Fayette, and Madame de Sévigné. Aufstand der Fischer von Santa Barbara, in 1928 (filmed by Piscator in the Soviet Union, 1934) was a piece about striking fishermen and their plight of pov- : Transit (1944), a further exploration of emigration,

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ties of the time such as La Rochefoucauld, Mme de La the name Seghers), was a milieu study, the next, Fayette, and Madame de Sévigné. Aufstand der Fischer von Santa Barbara, in 1928 (filmed by Piscator in the Soviet Union, 1934) was a piece about striking fishermen and their plight of pov-

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Nouettes, where Sophie de Ségur was to spend the major part of her life. The marriage was not a very happy one, and she decided to live in Normandy with her eight children. Though she had always been a good story teller, it is only when her grandchildren moved away to England that she started to write, mailing them the stories they had enjoyed so much at home.