Colette Brull-Ulmann was born in 1920; can't really see her taking out a subscription until she was maybe 15-18 at the earliest? I can't find any info on her economics; whether she would've had pocket money as a youngster's beyond me. She was born in Paris, but I have no idea if her family moved about when she was young. I'm guessing it's more likely that she was closer to 18+ (so 1938, 1940, 1941; see below).
According to the card, she lived on avenue du Général Maistre, which was named that in 1934, so it must be post-1934. She's also Mlle Brull on the card, but she married Jacques Ulmann in 1943, so that doesn't help.
1936 & 1939 are out: some of the days borrowed on the card were sundays in those years. So we're talking 1935, 1937, 1938, 1940, 1941. The last book, borrowed on the 10th, was never returned & there's no note about that; if 1941, you could read that lack of care in Fitch's narrative re december 41 (404-405; that's a pretty spotty speculation).
Took me forever to realize that "st." in the subscription section means student, & I think they mostly did that for various sorts of university students, so I'm guessing this was from when Brull was enrolled as a medical student, so it must be after 1938 (she was at I think the Faculté de Médecine, which is where, at least, she resumed her studies in 44). So 38, 40, or 41.
Of course, I'm tempted to read 38 or 40: she's reading Hawthorne & Brontë, & v quickly. The Scarlet Letter takes her only from the 2nd to the 6th of december; & Villette takes her from the 6th to the 10th. Taking books out doesn't mean reading them; but she gets The Professor right after reading Villette, so it seems like Brontë was not uninteresting to her. I think she became an intern at the Hôpital in 41 (as a Jewish student only Rothschild was available to her as an interning option); & I have a hard time imagining she was zipping through anglophone classics while interning (& saving children) during the war. But what is it to imagine that she was zipping through them during her first semester at medical school, or a couple years in, while the world's at war & Paris is threatened? I don't know enough about how challenging one's first term at FdM would've been, for one. & perhaps a world war's precisely the time one might get a sudden zippy nostalgia for writing like Hawthorne's & Brontë's.
I'm going to notBefore 1938 // notAfter 1941, because I don't think I can get any closer.
Colette Brull-Ulmann was born in 1920; can't really see her taking out a subscription until she was maybe 15-18 at the earliest? I can't find any info on her economics; whether she would've had pocket money as a youngster's beyond me. She was born in Paris, but I have no idea if her family moved about when she was young. I'm guessing it's more likely that she was closer to 18+ (so 1938, 1940, 1941; see below).
According to the card, she lived on avenue du Général Maistre, which was named that in 1934, so it must be post-1934. She's also Mlle Brull on the card, but she married Jacques Ulmann in 1943, so that doesn't help.
1936 & 1939 are out: some of the days borrowed on the card were sundays in those years. So we're talking 1935, 1937, 1938, 1940, 1941. The last book, borrowed on the 10th, was never returned & there's no note about that; if 1941, you could read that lack of care in Fitch's narrative re december 41 (404-405; that's a pretty spotty speculation).
Took me forever to realize that "st." in the subscription section means student, & I think they mostly did that for various sorts of university students, so I'm guessing this was from when Brull was enrolled as a medical student, so it must be after 1938 (she was at I think the Faculté de Médecine, which is where, at least, she resumed her studies in 44). So 38, 40, or 41.
Of course, I'm tempted to read 38 or 40: she's reading Hawthorne & Brontë, & v quickly. The Scarlet Letter takes her only from the 2nd to the 6th of december; & Villette takes her from the 6th to the 10th. Taking books out doesn't mean reading them; but she gets The Professor right after reading Villette, so it seems like Brontë was not uninteresting to her. I think she became an intern at the Hôpital in 41 (as a Jewish student only Rothschild was available to her as an interning option); & I have a hard time imagining she was zipping through anglophone classics while interning (& saving children) during the war. But what is it to imagine that she was zipping through them during her first semester at medical school, or a couple years in, while the world's at war & Paris is threatened? I don't know enough about how challenging one's first term at FdM would've been, for one. & perhaps a world war's precisely the time one might get a sudden zippy nostalgia for writing like Hawthorne's & Brontë's.
I'm going to notBefore 1938 // notAfter 1941, because I don't think I can get any closer.