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Topic: Plectrude

	Plectrude et la vie enfin la sienne enfin la mienne
		Plectrude et la vie enfin la sienne enfin la mienne
		Dans la série des hommes de ma vie.
		Je le tuerai cet enfant, je le laisserai mourir dans mon ventre, je le tuerai à coup de tristesse, je le tue présentement, à chaque seconde et sur la table où disparaîtra notre seul souvenir je serai muette, frappée par les mots, par mon amour trop grand, trop rapide.
	plectrudeetlavie.blogspot.com (4194 words)

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		Plectrude is adopted by her aunt Clemence, who honours her sister's memory by dressing her like a fairytale princess and taking her to ballet school.
		Plectrude will pursue the dream that had been denied to her, for Clemence had been refused entry to the same ballet school when she was a teenager.
		Plectrude's adolescent years as an anorexic in a brutal ballet school, where the girls exercise until they ache and are encouraged to starve themselves, are extraordinarily vivid.
	shopping.guardian.co.uk /books/story/0,1587,1226867,00.html (641 words)

	Learning the right moves
		Plectrude "was so much the dancer that she lived out every last scene of her life as though it were in a ballet.
		Plectrude becomes one with whatever she does, and ballet is no exception: "She worked on her dancing from morning till evening, without a sense that dancing was what she was doing." Thoroughly under the control of both her teachers and her own drive to succeed, she ultimately remains unattainable and removed.
		Plectrude's life is marked by changes in body, soul, connections to friends and parents, and her place in the world, and though she may be unlike us, she struggles and suffers for what is at the core of each of our lives.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/08/01/RVG2S7RP751.DTL (759 words)

	The Book of Proper Names - Amélie Nothomb
		Plectrude is taken in by Lucette's sister, Clémence, and her husband Denis, who already have two young children.
		Plectrude is a typical Nothombian infant and young child -- not bothering to speak (beyond the word: "maman") for a long time, learning to read quickly -- but not at school and only when it makes sense to her.
		Plectrude gains some weight and regains her health, and finds a different sort of dream, drawn to the theatre (and Ionesco).
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/nothomba/robertnp.htm (1406 words)

	Battle of Soissons (718) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Battle of Soissons of 718 was the last of the great pitched battles of the civil war between the heirs of Pepin of Heristal.
		Since Pepin's death in December 714, his grandson and heir Theudoald, his widow Plectrude, his bastard son Charles Martel, his successor as mayor of the palace in Neustria Ragenfrid, and the new king Chilperic II had been waging a war for ascendancy.
		Though Ragenfrid and Chilperic had begun with successes and Plectrude and Theudoald were removed early, Martel turned the tide of war and eventually forced the surrender of all his opponents.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Soissons_(718) (325 words)

	Charles Martel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A brilliant general in an age generally bereft of the same, he is considered the forefather of western heavy cavalry (chivalry), founder of the Carolingian Empire, (which was named after him), and a catalyst for the feudal system that would see Europe through the Dark Ages.
		Moving quickly, Plectrude seized Charles Martel, her husband's eldest surviving son, a bastard, and put him in prison in Cologne, the city which was destined to be her capital.
		He allowed both Plectrude and Theudoald to live, and treated them with kindness—unusual for those Dark Ages, when mercy to a former jailer, or a potential rival, was rare.
	en.wikipedia.org /?title=Charles_Martel (7009 words)

	Pippin of Herstal
		Around 670, Pippin II married Plectrude for her inheritance of substantial estates in the Moselle region.
		These legitimate children and grandchildren claimed themselves to be Pepin's true successors and with the help of his widow Plectrude tried to maintain the position of Mayor of the Palace after Pepin II’s death on December 16, 714.
		Despite the efforts of Plectrude to silence her rival's child by imprisoning him, he became the sole Mayor of the Palace and de facto ruler of Francia.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/pe/Pepin_of_Herstal.html (234 words)

	Books: Sick bird of youth by Tze Ming Mok \| New Zealand Listener
		Our heroine Plectrude is named by her teenage mother, who kills her husband and herself rather than allow her baby to be limited by anything as ordinary as a working-class existence or a name like “Joelle”.
		As Plectrude grows up, the inexorable effects of her beauty and talent allow her to be charmed into delusion and painfully realised anorexia.
		Plectrude, like Peter Pan, is a serious outsider to adult society, but is handicapped by having to live in contemporary France rather than Never Never Land.
	www.listener.co.nz /issue/3352/artsbooks/2366/sick_bird_of_youth.html (513 words)

	erasing clouds
		The novel revolves around the life of Plectrude, a girl born in jail from a mother who killed her husband over an argument on how to name the baby and who commits suicide soon after the child is born.
		At school Plectrude is a bit of a cross-over between a catastrophic failure and a bright young genius, her real passion in life being not school, but ballet.
		In an attempt to follow her mums' destiny, Plectrude falls pregnant and decides to commit suicide when she's nineteen, though she's saved at the last minute by a boy she had a crush on when she was at school.
	www.erasingclouds.com /0616book2.html (593 words)

	Ex Libris: Nonplussed by Nothomb
		There is Plectrude, the infant who comes into the world in the midst of violent circumstances (her mother kills her father because she dislikes his name choices for the baby, then commits suicide in prison shortly after her baby is born).
		Enter the fairy godmother (Plectrude's aunt, Clemence, who raises her as her own) who knows beyond any doubt that Plectrude is special and must be treated that way.
		Plectrude studies drama and lands a role in a play by Eugene Ionesco (her favorite author).
	exlibris.typepad.com /ex_libris/2006/07/nonplussed_by_n.html (1099 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Charles Martel
		Charles, who was then twenty-six, was not excluded from the succession on account of his birth, Theodoald himself being the son of a concubine, but through the influence of Plectrude, Theodoald's grandmother, who wished the power invested in her own descendants exclusively.
		He was defeated by Ratbod near Cologne in 716, and the Neustrians forced Plectrude to acknowledge as king Chilperic, the son of Childeric II, having taken this Merovingian from the seclusion of the cloister, where he lived the name of Daniel.
		Then retracing his steps, he came to Cologne and compelled Plectrude to surrender her power and turn over to him the wealth of his father, Pepin.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/03629a.htm (1383 words)

	Readings Books & Music
		Plectrude is an orphan, whose parents died tragically - her mother killed her father and then committed suicide.
		Plectrude grows up with her aunt, who conceals the past from her, and falls obsessively in love with her.
		But when Plectrude's outstanding talent for dance wins her a place at the Opera de Paris her jealous 'mother' conspires with the sadistic regimen of the school to destroy Plectrude's health and sanity.
	www.readings.com.au /bookweb/details.cgi?ITEMNO=9780571220335 (165 words)

	Culpepper Connections' Family Tree - Person Page 8371
		Pepin left as heirs three grandsons, and until they came of age, Plectrude, Pepin's widow, was to hold power.
		Plectrude imprisoned Charles and tried to govern in the name of her grandchildren, but Charles escaped, gathered an army, and defeated the Neustrians in battles at Amblève near Liège (716) and at Vincy near Cambrai (717).
		His success made resistance by Plectrude and the Austrasians useless; they submitted, and by 719 Charles alone governed the Franks as mayor.
	gen.culpepper.com /ss/p8371.htm (732 words)

	BookCloseouts.com - The Bestseller in Bargain Books
		While in prison, Lucette gives birth to a daughter to whom she bequeaths the portentous name of an obscure saint, Plectrude, before hanging herself.
		Raised by an indulgent and adoring aunt, she is a dreamy child who is discovered to have enormous gifts as a dancer.
		Accepted at Paris's most prestigious ballet school, Plectrude devotes herself to artistic perfection, giving dance her heart and soul - and ultimately her body.
	www.bookcloseouts.com /?R=0571220339B (161 words)

	Muslim Conquests in Europe
		When Pippin died in 714, his wife, Plectrude, imprisoned Charles to assure that her grandson, then a small child, would become king.
		Plectrude came under attack by several dukedoms in the Frankish kingdom.
		Plectrude bribed the invaders to cease their attack, but on their way home, Charles ambushed them and killed many.
	www.crf-usa.org /bria/bria20_1b.htm (2475 words)

	France-diplomatie [Label France, magazine] (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It tells the story of Plectrude, a child born in prison to a mother who has killed her husband after an argument about what to call their expected child.
		Brought up by her uncle and aunt, Plectrude is a beautiful child, uninhibited and easy-going, a bit of a dunce at school but a prodigy when it comes to dance.
		In adolescence, she breaks her knee and her dream of one day becoming a famous ballet star at the Opera is shattered.
	www.diplomatie.gouv.fr /label_france/51/gb/16.html (965 words)

	Charles Martel
		At the death of his father in 714, Pippin's widow Plectrude claimed the government in Austrasia and Neustria in the name of her grandchildren, and had Charles thrown into prison.
		In Austrasia he wrested the power from Plectrude, and took the title of mayor of the palace, thus prejudicing the interests of his nephews.
		According to the Frankish custom he proclaimed a king in Austrasia in the person of the young Clotaire IV, but in reality Charles was the sole master -- the entry in the annals for the year 717 being "Carolus regnare coepit." Once in possession of Austrasia, Charles sought to extend his dominion over Neustria also.
	www.nndb.com /people/874/000092598 (779 words)

	International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award 2006
		The novel therefore begins on the borderline between tragedy and absurdity, but as Plectrude grows - raised by a loving, indulgent, and eccentric aunt - it becomes a deeply moving and simultaneously chilling portrait of girlhood.
		Plectrude's great gift turns out to be for ballet, and she throws herself into dance as if her life depended upon it.
		Inevitably, the doom hovering over Plectrude's life from birth returns to haunt her, and in the end she learns to survive in the only way she knows how - by committing an act of deadly self-preservation her mother would have perhaps understood best.
	www.impacdublinaward.ie /2006/Titles/Nothomb.htm (336 words)

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