A life of her own

by Émilie Carles

1992 304 pages

Émilie Carles (1900-1979) was born into the rigidly conservative patriarchal world of a poor and isolated peasant community in the high Alps of southeastern France. Her autobiography is the story of a world that has largely disappeared and of the one that has emerged to take its place. A woman who …

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