Show: The Masters Bell-Ringers

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This novel is not the author's best known, but is part of the rural novels of George Sand describing with respect and admiration the rural world of the time, and notably the Berry. The uniqueness of The Masters Bell-Ringers lies in its focus on popular music with the bagpipes, on the transmission of musical knowledge and the richness created by the meeting of different cultures. The novel, published in 1853, tells the youth of the narrator, Tiennet, with his cousin Brulette and Joseph, a boy regarded as simple, between Nohant and Saint-Chartier, in Berry, at the fi…