Word: alix
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there was Alix, her daughter, a grave, dark child in her mid-teens. Alix spent half the year with her father's father, the remainder with Maman, under the terms of the divorce. Tradition, strongest in the outcast, dictated innocence for a jeune fille; ultimately a husband, un foyer. For jungle life outside society's pale, however free and beautiful, had its fierce dangers, its pain. A mother seeks to spare her daughter these-and Madame Vervier was a devoted mother...
There are also several autographed letters and manuseripts, which have never been published, with Voltaire's corrections, some original editions of several works, including Candide, some rare engravings, and the portrait in color engraved by Alix...