Short Fiction · Character
Marie Clavert
The beautiful orphan drudge of Madame Bauche's household, whose ripening charms have quietly captured the heir's heart without his mother noticing.
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Also known as Marie, poor Marie, Marie Campan, no Marie
First appearance: La Mère Bauche
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A charity child raised by Madame Bauche.
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Marie lives under Madame Bauche's green-spectacled charity, valued as a useful drudge and never once considered as a woman. The valley has already seen what Madame Bauche has not: that Adolphe Bauche, heir to…
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- Family
- Other
Character groups
- Tragic French Love
- Protagonist
- Italian & German Love
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- Breaking point
- Aftermath
- Closing
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- Adolphe Bauche
family · ambivalent
Adolphe Bauche and Marie Clavert are father and daughter, with a protective but strained… How this plays out →
- Adolphe Bauche
family · ambivalent
Adolphe Bauche and Marie Clavert are father and daughter, with a protective but strained… How this plays out →
- Adolphe Bauche
family · ambivalent
Adolphe Bauche and Marie Clavert are father and daughter, with a protective but strained… How this plays out →
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