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Lormerin

A still-handsome Parisian bachelor who returns to a long-ago love expecting to dazzle her, and finds twenty-five years have been kinder to his mirror than to his memory.

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Also known as the handsome Lormerin

First appearance: short fiction

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The handsome Count of Lormerin, now grey but still elegant, receives a letter from an old flame and is haunted by memories of his youth.
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Lormerin has spent decades as a self-satisfied man about town, keeping a small altar in his heart for Lise de Vance, the one woman he believes he truly loved. When an invitation arrives, he dresses with a woman's care…

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OBOld BonifaceLLLuc Le GanidecMHMiss HarrietMPMonsieur ParentMTMadame TellierLOLormerin

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  • Other

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  • Varied Tales of Human Nature
  • Social Hypocrisy and Class
  • Defiance and Superstition
  • Protagonist

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