Héloïse Pajadou's Calvary
Paperback 100 pages English June 27, 2021
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Héloïse Pajadou's Calvary (Le Calvaire de Héloïse 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 Héloïse, who runs a laundry business with him and her mother, in a small country village outside Paris.Just when Pajadouʼs 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..."
- Author:
- Lucien Descaves
- Publisher:
- Sunny Lou Publishing
- Publication Date:
- June 27, 2021
- Number of pages:
- 100 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1955392072
- ISBN-13:
- 9781955392075