De Goupil à Margot | 
This collection of animal stories is so depressing: every animal ends up dead in deeply unpleasant circumstances. I know nature is cruel and everything, but I could do with a bit of gentleness right now...
Franz Marc painted this fox in 1911, a year after this book was published. Just like the author, he died in WWI. Pic in the Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
In 2025, I will be reading books set in, or written by authors with a strong connection to the Doubs département (nb 25), starting with the tagged title by Louis Pergaud, whose complete works I found on my grandparents' shelves when we emptied their house. In the book was a dedication dated 31-01-1975 I hadn't noticed before 😲
It received the Prix Goncourt in 1910, 5 years before Pergaud's death near Verdun, during the First World War.
