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Ann G. Forcier's avatar

This is great!

When the epilogue is in, I'd like to share your whole story with several groups I belong to. Okay with you?

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Lisa Maguire's avatar

It would be my pleasure!

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Jill Swenson's avatar

Interesting to read that the charge of seduction was an offense to parental rights. So well-researched! Looking forward to reading the Epilogue.

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Lisa Maguire's avatar

It makes sense. The whole ancien régime system was based on hierarchy, and any disruption of that hierarchy was a serious threat to the whole system.

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Jill Swenson's avatar

Yes, it does make sense. Lineage meant everything. Ascribed status in life. Zero social mobility.

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Lisa Maguire's avatar

What I found amazing is that the families were clearly close, and it wasn't as though the Le Neufs were such fancy aristocrats, but it was clearly offensive even in that considerably flatter social hierarchy. A rule is a rule.

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Jane Chapman's avatar

This has been such an interesting story. What a sad way for things to end for the Morins. Looking forward to the epologue. I hope something goes right for them.

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Lisa Maguire's avatar

One more twist to the tale!

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Alison Baxter's avatar

What a dramatic climax. It feels very unjust from a modern perspective, almost as if the seduction charge was an excuse for a land grab. I love the illustrations, by the way.

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Lisa Maguire's avatar

That's just my interpretation, but I think it is a solid hypothesis, based on what else we know about Le Neuf.

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