EDNOTE. Yes, there are also references to Segur's books in Speak, Memory. There is something about her books in a piece of mine on ZEMBLA

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From: Yannickec@aol.com

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Subject: Re: "Burning Barn" Query/Kveree

Dans un e-mail daté du 23/09/03 00:37:22 Paris, Madrid (heure d'été), chtodel@cox.net a écrit :

ADA contains at least one allusion to Comtesse de Segur's childrens books. Does anyone out there know whether there is a "Burning Barn" scene in any of them?

There is another one in I,8 : "At ten or earlier the child had read -as Van had- les Malheurs de Swann".