The House I Loved (2012) (edit title/settings)

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• Rose Cadoux Bazelet: French woman who grew up in old Paris and watched the modern changes forced on the city by the Emperor. Loves her home and Paris.
• Monsieur Armand Bazelet: Rose's deceased husband, to whom her letter is written, He was eight years older than she. They had two children: Violette and Baptiste. Treasures the house on the corner of rue Childebert and rue Erfurth, just by the fountain lived in bu his family since 1715.
• Mademoiselle Alexandrine: Flower girl who rents her shop from Rose Brazelet. Tall, outspoken, creates beautiful arrangements with the flowers she loves. Becomes a good friend to Rose. Makes arrangements for a wide variety of life events.
• Gilbert: Ragpicker who assists Rose - tall, friendly, respectful, lame legged
• Violette Brazelet: Rose and Armand's daughter. A cold, remote and difficult girl. Marries Laurent Pesquet and they have two cildren,
• Maman Odette Bazelet: Armand's mother - loving, kind, gentile - adores her daughter-in-law Rose and Rose adores her.
• Jules Bazelet: Deceased husband of Odette Bazelet - an ill-tempered, short-fused, impetuous man, who died when their son Armand was fifteen.
• Baptiste Bazelet: Rose and Armand's son, nine years younger than his sister Violette. Rose adored her son.
• Germaine: Maid to Rose Bazelet
• Maeiette: Cook for to Rose Bazelet
• Monsieur Zamaretti: Bookseller who rents his shop from Rose Bazelet, shares books with Rose
• Emile Cadoux: Rose Cadoux Bazelet's brother. Married to Edith. They and their children gladly took their money and moved out of Paris to the village of Vaucresson
• Berthe Cadoux Vaudin: Rose Bazelet's mother. Remarried tobrash, outish Edouard Vaudin when Rose was seven
• Père Levasque: Priest of church o Saint-Germainnear house
• Barronne de Vresse, Louise Eglantine de Villebague de Vresse: Good friend of Rose Bazelet and Alexandrine
• The Prefect, Baron Haussmann: Architect and designer of the new, modern Paris which will destroy old neighborhoods and churches to create long, wide boulevards. Married- wife Octavie, two daughters, Henriette and Valentine
• The Emperor, Napoleon III: Emperor of France
• Monsieur Jubert: Runs the printing house
• Madame Godfin: Owns her herbalist shop
• Mademoiselle Vazembert: Flirtaceous haberdashery clerk who wears an excess of crinolines
• Monsieur Monthier: Chocolate maker
• Monsieur Helder: Owner of Chez Paulette restaurant
• Doctor Nonant: local doctor
• Monsieue Horace: wine merchant
• Madame Micheline Paccard: Owns and runs the Hotel Belfort with 16 rooms, 36 windows, five stories and a fine restaurant on rue Childebert
• Monsieur Bougrelle: bookbinder
• Madame Colléville: former florist shopkeeper in the Bazelet shop- ran a damp, dark, unexciting business
• Mademoiselle Jaquemelle: a gifted dressmaker favored by Rose
• Blaise: young assistant to Alexandrine in her florist shop
• Madame Barou: Rose's neighbor
• Monsieur Vincent: Works at the printing house for Monsieur Jubert
• Madame Chanteloup: Add a description of this character.
• Octave Zamaretti
• Madame Laurent Pesquet
• Émile
• Mariette
• Docteur Nonant
• Edith
• Monsieur Marville
• Lady Bruce
• Monsieur Horace

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• “Oh, what had become of my medieval city, its quaint charm, its sinuous alleys? It seemed to me tonight that Paris had turned into a florid, overripe harlot flaunting her froufrous.”

  Rose Bazelet

• “Paris is always hungry for flowers, Madame Rose. The city needs her ration, every day. Flowers for love, flowers for sorrow, flowers for joy, flowers to remember. Flowers for friends.”

  Alexandrine Walcker

• “The need to read took over me, a delicious and exhilirating hold. The more I read, the hungrier I became. Each book seemed promising, each page I turned offered an escapade, the allure of another world, other destinies, other dreams.”

  Rose Bazelet

• “The house bore the story of our love in its inner structure, in its quaint beauty. The house was my link to you, forever. By losing the house, I would again lose you.”

  Rose Bazelet

• “This house is like my body, it is like my own skin, my blood, my bones. It carries me like I have carried our children. It has been damaged, it has suffered, it has been violated, it has survived, but today, it will collapse. Today, nothing can save the house, nothing can save me. There is nothing out there, Armand, nothing or nobody that I wish to hold on to. I am an old lady now, it is time for me to take my leave.”

  Rose Bazelet

Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Paris
• Taranne
• Gozlin

First Sentence edit see section history

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Tatiana de Rosnay (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: PR9105.9.R6H68 2012
• Dewey: 823'.914--dc23

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Literature & Fiction › Genre Fiction › Historical

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