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- Bécassine is a French comic strip and the name of its heroine, appearing for the first time in the first issue of La Semaine de Suzette on February 2, 1905. She is considered one of the first female protagonists in the history of French comics.
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The character Bécassine is a young Breton housemaid, usually depicted wearing a green dress pastiching traditional Breton peasant costume, with lace coiffe and clogs. She is said to come from Finistère, the area most associated with traditional Breton culture.
The name Bécassine, though, remains. It's actually a nickname, ostensibly based on the character's home village, Clocher-les-Bécasses. However, it's also derived from the French word for the number of birds in a family of snipe, and is used as something of derogatory slang for "fool."
The titular character is a young provincial girl from the French region of Bretagne. She wears traditional clothing and is clumsy, yet has a heart of gold. A French film adaptation titled Bécassine! came out in 2018, starring Émeline Bayart in the role.
I’m 29, I read a fair amount of BDs (I grew up with Le Journal de Mickey and Spirou Magazine, still receive Spirou but don’t read it as religiously as before), and my only knowledge of Bécassine is that she’s a character from a BD but I don’t remember reading any of her stories.
Dec 2, 2016 · Response to Les Aventures de Bécassine has been mixed, due to the series’ problematic, stereotypical depiction of Brittany and Bretons: the country is backward, the inhabitants are credulous and unintelligent. Beyond this, however, is the presence of Bécassine as a rare female character in BD.
The comic strip writers named the beloved French-born character Annaïk Labornez. In her fictional universe, there were many babies bearing the same first name, which is why she was given her iconic nickname, Bécassine.
Jacqueline Rivière (8 May 1851 – 20 February 1920) was a pseudonym of a French writer, newspaper editor-in-chief and creator of the successful comic strip Bécassine.
