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Hlose Pajadou's Calvary (Le Calvaire de Hlose Pajadou originally), by Lucien Descaves, and published for the first time in 1883, is a Naturalist novel set in mid-18th century France, during the French Second Empire or possibly later.
This is a tale of marital infidelity on the part of a vulgar, but wily, inveterate skirt-chaser, Pajadou, and the toll his extra-marital affairs, ever more audacious, take on his good, good-hearted, faithful wife Hlose, who runs a laundry business with him and her mother, in a small country village outside Paris.
Just when Pajadous behavior seemed like it could not get any worse, the family-owned business apprentices Reine, a girl "not yet fourteen years old; she looked twelve, if that. She was small in stature, very slender, with an immensely sweet prettiness. Her very blond and very fine hair were tucked up under a little white bonnet pulled down over her ears. But what was particularly pretty about her was her complexion. Her white skin, a transparent, delicately pink white skin, which her eyelashes cast a shadow on, gave her a luminous face: it was like a spray of flowers..."
- Format: Pocket/Paperback
- ISBN: 9781955392075
- Språk: Engelska
- Antal sidor: 100
- Utgivningsdatum: 2021-06-27
- Översättare: Richard Robinson
- Förlag: Sunny Lou Publishing