Gilberte and her widowed mother arrive at a Dieppe boarding-house after years of wandering through England, Germany and Russia, and the girl is delighted to discover a France she has never known. Soon she is alone in the world, courted by suitors, and keeping a daily tryst with an unknown friend at a ruined summer-house.
A romantic, unexpected side of the author of Arsène Lupin, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. Download the free EPUB.