All the World's Mornings

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All the Mornings of the World

Author	Pascal Quignard
Original title	Tous les matins du monde
Language	French
Genre	Novel
Publisher	Gallimard
Publication date	31 December 1991
Publication place	France
Media type	Print (Paperback)
ISBN	2-07-038773-9 (paperback edition)
OCLC	30103618

All the World's Mornings (French: Tous les matins du monde) is a 1991 novel by Pascal Quignard. It is a story of the apprenticeship of Marin Marais in the house of the austere, reclusive and mysterious violist, Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe, obsessed with his late wife, and of his romantic entanglements with his master's two daughters, Madeleine and Toinette.^[1] The story is taken from an anecdote in the work of Evrard Titon du Tillet. Among the historical facts that the book outlines are Sainte-Colombe's addition of the viola da gamba's seventh and lowest string.

The novel's narration has a contemplative pace, weaving in impressions of melancholy music and still life paintings. Sainte-Colombe is portrayed as a country recluse who eschews court life because of its artificiality.

In the same year as the book was published, the author participated in creating the screen adaptation with director Alain Corneau for the film of the same title.