But the novel becomes really exciting after Germaines
self-provoked expulsion from her native paradise. With two
of her children fathered by prominent lovers, traveling in
the technologically most advanced carriage of her time, she
finally reaches, with a little help from her new German travel
companion, Urmsons own native province. Through the
eyes of an urbane Parisian, the people, the food, the provincial
lifestyle take on a downright exotic, almost adventurous charm.
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