Bécassine
Bécassine is a French comic book character who first appeared in the first issue of the girls' magazine La Semaine de Suzette on February 2, 1905. She embodied the typical Brittany maid who moved to the big city of Paris because the demand was so great. She was portrayed as naive but devoted to rule. Her numerous linguistic mistakes were a source of amusement for bourgeois readers. She was very talkative, but not about the family secrets of her rule.
Development and release history
Originally planned to fill a blank page of the magazine, the story was written by Jacqueline Rivière (actually Jeanne Josephine Spallarossa, 1851-1920), wife of JH Bernard de la Roche, the magazine's editor, and drawn by Joseph Pinchon (1871 -1953). This first page was so successful that the stories about Bécassine now appeared regularly.
From 1913 to 1950, 27 albums of the Adventures of Bécassine were released, all drawn by Pinchon (with the exception of two penned by Edouard Zier) and written by Maurice Languereau until 1941 (the year he died ). Between 1948 and 1950 other draftsmen came.
The French Post issued a stamp with the image of Bécassine in April 2005 - to mark the centenary of the publication of their first adventure. Several Breton associations protested against this because they saw this figure as a degradation of their region.
Albums
- L'Enfance de Bécassine (1913)
- Bécassine en apprentissage ([1914] 1919)
- Bécassine pendant la Guerre (1916) - retitré Bécassine pendant la Grande Guerre
- Bécassine chez les Alliés (1917)
- Bécassine mobilisée (1918)
- Bécassine chez les Turcs (1919)
- Les Cent Métiers de Bécassine (1920)
- Bécassine voyage (1921)
- Bécassine nourrice (1922)
- Bécassine alpiniste (1923)
- Les Bonnes Idées de Bécassine (1924)
- Bécassine au Pays Basque (1925)
- Bécassine, son oncle et leurs amis (1926)
- L'automobile de Bécassine (1927)
- Bécassine au pensionnat (1928)
- Bécassine en aéroplane (1930)
- Bécassine fait du scoutisme (1931)
- Bécassine aux bains de mer (1932)
- Bécassine dans la neige (1933)
- Bécassine prend des pensionnaires (1934)
- Bécassine à Clocher-les-Bécasses (1935)
- Bécassine en croisière (1936)
- Bécassine cherche un emploi (1937)
- Les mésaventures de Bécassine (1938)
- Bécassine en roulotte (1939)
- Les Petits Ennuis de Bécassine ([1948] 2005)
- Bécassine au studio ([1950] 1992)
cinemamovies
Bécassine was the first film adaptation in 1940. Directed by Pierre Caron, the screenplay came from Jean Nohain and René Pujol, Paulette Dubost played the leading role. The film was not dubbed in German.
In 2001 an animated film was released with the title Bécassine, le trésor viking ( Bécassine and the hunt for the Viking treasure ). It came to the cinema in Germany in 2003.
Another real film version from 2018 under the title Bécassine! has only shown in theaters in France and Bulgaria so far.
All three films are available on DVD, there is only a German version of the animated film.
literature
- Anne Martin-Fugier: La Place des bonnes - la domesticité féminine à Paris en 1900 , Grasset, 1979 (rééditions 1985, 1998, 2004)
- Bernard Lehambre: Bécassine, une légende du siècle , Gautier-Languereau / Hachette Jeunesse, 2005
- Yves-Marie Labé, article “Bécassine débarque” , in Le Monde , August 28, 2005.
- Yann Le Meur, article “Bécassine, le racisme ordinaire du bien-pensant” , in Hopala , No. 21 (November 2005 – February 2006).
- Philippe Ariès and Georges Duby (eds.): History of private life (1985). Augsburg 1999, Volume 4: From Revolution to Great War (1987). Edited by Michelle Perrot, p. 186
