French Edition by Comtesse de Ségur (Author)

Sophie's misfortunes is a children's novel written by the Countess de Ségur. The book was published in 1858, at the publisher Hachette with illustrations by Horace Castelli. It forms a trilogy with little model girls and holidays. The action takes place in a castle of the French campaign of the Second Empire where Sophie lives with her parents Mr. and Mme de Réan. Curious and adventurous, she commits stupidity with stupidity with the critical complicity of Paul, her cousin. Her friend is Camille and Madeleine de Fleurville, little model girls that she struggles to imitate ...