Jean Marie D%C3%A9guignet
JeanMarie Dguignet was a Breton soldier, farmer, salesman, shopkeeper, and writer who is best known for his memoirs illuminating the life of the rural poor of 19thcentury France.
Dguignet was born into a farming family in southwest Brittany. He spent time in the army he was posted as far away as Mexico and fought in the Crimea. His love of learning, and the extensive and eclectic nature of his studies and travel while a young man, led him to freethought and atheism.
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