Short Fiction · Character
Adolphe Bauche
The valley's first young man and his mother's proudest possession, who commits the unforgivable: falling in love with the orphan her charity took in.
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Also known as Adolphe Bauche—and, Adolphe, Adolphe Bauche—was
First appearance: La Mère Bauche
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Madame Bauche's son, who falls in love with Marie Clavert.
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Adolphe Bauche is heir to his mother's riches and reputation, the young man every valley household measures its daughters against. Madame Bauche, seeing only a useful drudge in Marie Clavert, never imagined her son…
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- Family
- Other
Character groups
- Tragic French Love
- Protagonist
- Rural Romance & Family
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- Setup
- Escalation
- Breaking point
- Aftermath
- Closing
Bessy Pryor’s internal struggle reaches its emotional and psychological peak as she wrestles with the conflict…
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- Marie Clavert
family · ambivalent
Adolphe Bauche and Marie Clavert are father and daughter, with a protective but strained… How this plays out →
- Marie Clavert
family · ambivalent
Adolphe Bauche and Marie Clavert are father and daughter, with a protective but strained… How this plays out →
- Marie Clavert
family · ambivalent
Adolphe Bauche and Marie Clavert are father and daughter, with a protective but strained… How this plays out →
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