Ourika: A Novel of the Old Regime
Aug 2026 · Aeneas Press
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A Senegalese girl is bought as an infant and raised in a Paris salon as an aristocrat's ward — loved, educated, and then old enough to notice that no one will marry her. Claire de Duras lost her father to the guillotine and wrote this in 1823 from inside the society she is describing; it is the first French novel to give a black woman a mind and a voice, and it was a sensation. Fifty-three plates of eighteenth-century French painting, from Watteau and Chardin to Nattier, show the concerts, salons and quiet rooms of the world that made and then excluded her.
A Senegalese girl is bought as an infant and raised in a Paris salon as an aristocrat's ward — loved, educated, and then old enough to notice that no one will marry her. Claire de Duras lost her father to the guillotine and wrote this in 1823 from inside the society she is describing; it is the f...
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Claire de Duras (1777–1828) was a French writer who published her best-known work, the novella Ourika, in 1823. She lived in Paris and London and hosted a literary salon during the Bourbon Restoration.
Claire de Duras (1777–1828) was a French writer who published her best-known work, the novella Ourika, in 1823. She lived in Paris and London and hosted a literary salon during the Bourbon Restoration.
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