On a snowy Christmas morning in 1860 a little foundling, Angélique, is discovered at the cathedral door in Beaumont and taken in by a couple of church embroiderers. Raised among legends of virgin saints and golden vestments, she grows up awaiting a perfect love, and believes she has found it when a mysterious young man appears.
A deliberately gentle departure within Zola’s Rougon-Macquart cycle, for readers who know only his darker novels. Download the free EPUB.