A mysterious portrait of Mademoiselle de Malepeire unravels a tale of forbidden love and murder during the French Revolution.
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A mysterious portrait of Mademoiselle de Malepeire unravels a tale of forbidden love and murder during the French Revolution.
This new translation of Mademoiselle de Malepeire is sure to charm bibliophiles and champions of banned books. Barbara Richter uses her considerable skills as a modern translator and writer to bring Fanny Reybaud’s captivating French novel to the English-speaking world for the first time in more than a century. This 1854 novel focuses on a portrait of Mademoiselle de Malepeire, which hangs in Dom Gérusac’s home in the countryside of southern France just before the first French Revolution.
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References to forbidden love; likely fade-to-black romantic scenes.
Mentions of murder and deception; intensity unclear but present.
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Themes of social defiance and French Revolution-era conflict.
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Possible systemic suffering tied to Revolution-era themes.
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