Word: transients
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Barbara Winship, pretty but penniless orphan from Savannah, Ga., goes to Paris to live with her middle-aged uncle and aunt, the Selbys. Uncle George has a permanent job in Paris; Aunt Virginia has what is almost a salon. They know and bother with few transient U. S. tourists; instead they have good friends among the French bourgeoisie (U. S.: upper classes). When Barbara arrives in Paris she is a small-town Southern girl, almost a type. Her aunt's canny tutelage, her own adaptability, latent good sense, transform her into an original charmer. When she marries good-natured...