seeks revenge himself. Théotiste is accused by a spiteful neighbour of having given birth and drowned her child in the marsh. She is arrested, but released through lack of evidence. Jeanin now refuses to marry her because of her "shame", and Théotiste is shunned by most of the community. Aoustin has a false wooden hand made to replace his loss. He kidnaps Jeanin, intending to kill him and bury him under his cottage, but news arrives that Théotiste has had a mental breakdown. He locks Jeanin up, and attempts to take the deranged Théotiste through the marshes to a hospital. He cannot control his boat adequately with his wooden hand, and gets lost in the freezing cold marsh. During the night Théotiste dies. In despair, Aoustin returns to his cottage but cannot bring himself to kill Jeanin. He lets him go. Other versions The novel was filmed in the year after its publication by Léon Poirier in a style of pictorialist naturalism. The music from the film by Paul Ladmirault was published as the Symphonic poem, La Brière. In 1926 an edition illustrated by René-Yves Creston was published. In 1927, the London publisher Thornton Butterworth published the English translation by Frances Mabel Robinson. References External links cinémathèque de Bretagne - La Brière 1923 French novels Novels set in Brittany French novels adapted into films