Wearing ankle-length skirts and a bower of yellow roses on her head, she arrives in Paris laden with the accouterments of her film-producing career. Sebastien’s hysterical dot was Marie DuGard’s prelude to emancipation. He remembered that afternoon three years ago as a kind of a blurred, hysterical dot on the continuum of his otherwise orderly life, a little moment that was easier to pretend had never happened than to explain in the context of his normally sound, exemplary conduct.” It had been a feverish encounter on a rainy August afternoon that had made no sense then and made even less now. “Sebastien knew Marie Du Gard slightly better than her father realized. From the first paragraph you know Sebastien is going to get his hair mussed. Everything we consider modern was just beginning to pop: Freud, Picasso, automobiles, motion picture photography, electronic communication, feminism! And to see all these issues rolled out against a backdrop of turn-of-the-century, hub-of-the-universe Paris, and a romantically derelict castle in Normandy is delicious.Īnd the most tasty entree of all is Sebastien de Saint Vallier, an aristocrat, a genius, a hand-ball player and weight-lifter, a lawyer, a man completely in control. Dance by Judy Cuevas is set in France at the beginning of the 20th Century, which doesn’t sound particularly romantic, but is.
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