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Quartier Du Temple

Quartier Du Temple

Millerand, Hélène

Paperback

Literary Fiction

ISBN10: 2234062446
ISBN13: 9782234062443
Publisher: Stock
Published: May 3 2021
Pages: 226
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.52 Width: 5.32 Depth: 8.47
Language: French

October 13th 1857, on a scorching hot day in a Paris turned upside down by Haussman's improvements commissioned by Emperor Napoleon III.
Maxime, newly arrived from Normandy to study at the Conservatoire of Music, is walking over to a fountain when a young woman calls out to warn him it is not safe to drink the water in Paris. Her name is Fanny Herschel. Young, Jewish, intractable, she has the same eyes as the famous actress Rachel: huge and very black. And she too hopes she can break free from her situation, from hostility towards her people and from her father's brutal authority.
Those same eyes will meet Maxime's again in the Quartier du Temple (the Temple Quarter in Paris), on the edge of a building site, during a concert, in the crowds around Rachel's burial...
Following an attempted assassination of the emperor, Maxime, who has befriended a Republican, needs to escape the capital, and manages to with Fanny's help. Coping with a secret pregnancy, and engaged to a widower whom she won't allow herself to marry, the young girl stands proud and alone as she takes her fate into her own hands.
After Vieille France and Modern Solitude, Hélène Millerand paints another portrait of an endearing and complex woman. A passionate woman who wants to see herself free to live and love despite the ups and downs of her life. The author brings an old quarter of Paris bursting to life again.

Hélène Millerand was born in Versailles in 1945. She is the author of Vieille France (2004) and Modern Solitude (2006), both published by Stock.

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