Petit crevé
Petit crevé ( French crevé , broken, ready, done ') is an outdated term for a fashion fanatic . The term came up in the 1850s and 1860s and describes the fashion of the Second Empire .
In Theodor Fontane's novel Before the Storm (1878), the one-armed hat boy Hanne Bogun, who, wearing a new hat, pushed his way forward in a fight against the Napoleonic troops and stabbed a soldier, is referred to by his dying victim as "Petit crevé". The novel takes place long before the middle of the 19th century (in the winter of 1812/13). Fontane also uses the term in Frau Jenny Treibel (1892). Here the petit crevé is juxtaposed with the natural person who, with fresh senses, instead of "fidgeting" confronts the pleasures of life.
literature
- Pierre Chalmin: Le Petit crevé. Le Dilettante, 1995
Individual evidence
- ↑ Petit-crevé. In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon . 6th edition. tape 15 . Leipzig 1908, p. 659 ( zeno.org ).
- ↑ Before the Storm , Volume 4, Chapter 19 The Raid (zeno.org)
- ↑ Ms. Jenny Treibel 5. ( Memento of the original dated May 2, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (matoni.de)
- ↑ Web link ( Memento of the original from October 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , ledilettante.com
