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Un été à quatre mains

2017 novel by Gaëlle Josse

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ85811873 ↗
Source-derived summary

Un été à quatre mains is a French historical fiction novel by Gaëlle Josse about Franz Schubert.

The novel gives a fictionalized account of the time Schubert spent at Zseliz with the Esterházy family during the summer of 1828, and of his alleged unrequited love for the young countess Caroline von Esterházy.

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“Un été à quatre mains” enters the record as 2017 novel by Gaëlle Josse. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what quatre, mains and novel can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1828—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around quatre, mains and novel.
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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q85811873. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1828.

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This entry incorporates text from “Un été à quatre mains” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.