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 The Virgin Blue - Tracy Chevalier
Description: ISBN 0007241461 / Author: Tracy Chevalier / Genre: Fiction Newest Review: ... protestant preacher comes to the village to spread Calvinist religious ideas, including the rejection of Catholic ... more  ... idols. Many villages in the Cevennes at this time converted to the protestant religion, whose followers were known as Huguenots. Her brothers have to go off and fight in religious wars. Then her village is attacked by soldiers on the other side and she flees with her family to Switzerland. However, Isabelle remains drawn to some aspects of Catholic worship and symbolism, including praying to the Virgin Mary, popularly known as La Rousse (?The Redhead?). The t...more |
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El Azul de la Virgen / The Virgin Blue by Tracy Chevalier - Punto
Pages: 416, Paperback, Punto de Lectura - Books/Subjects/Fiction/ ... |
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The Virgin Blue - Tracy Chevalier: A tale of two women (709 words)
by elkiedee - written on 09.07.04 (Very useful, 567 readings)
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Four centuries apart, two women face hostility and suspicion from those around them because they are different. Isabelle is the daughter of the local wise woman, or midwife, and grows up helping to deliver babies. This knowledge and her red hair both mark her out as strange, a bit of a witch. She marries a man whose family, the Tourniers, hate her. Young American Ella Turner moves to France with her architect husband, and they settle in Lisle-sur-Tarn, a small town within commuting distance of his new job in Toulouse. Like Isabelle, Ella has worked as a midwife, but she must study for ...
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