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The Blessing

by Nancy Mitford

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Info:	Carroll & Graf Pub (1998), Paperback
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A very tongue-in-cheek look at an English girl learning how to deal with a French marriage, written in the 50s.
The story fizzes along, with several amusing set pieces, and moves between London, Paris, Provence and the English countryside.
It has to be said that there are some non-pc elements, as there often are in novels of this period. If you can ignore these, it's good fun.

parmaviolet | Feb 12, 2009 |

Beautiful, naive Englishwoman Graces marries a Frenchman and has to cope with an alien French lifestyle. The marriage comes apart, and attempts to reconcile them are put back by the couple's son, who has realised he gets more attention from separated parents. All very light and frothy. [June 2004] (

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Series (with order)

Canonical Title

The Blessing

Original publication date

1951

People/Characters

Grace de Valhubert

Charles-Edouard de Valhubert

Sigismond de Valhubert

Hector Dexter

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New York Times bestseller (Fiction, 1951)

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"The foreign gentleman seems to be in a terrible hurry, dear."

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Presently two incongruous, iron-clad figures appeared, clicking their tongues, the Dexter and Valhubert nannies in search of their charges. They peered about, turning over an occasional body, and looking like nothing so much as two tragic mothers after some massacre of innocents. Sigi was found in the arms of the Reine Margot; Foss had crept into a corner and been terribly sick. ... Bearing away the little bodies, their faces glowing with a just indignation, the two English nannies vanished into the night.

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Although it features an independent plot line, this novel contains characters who also figure in Don't Tell Alfred, the third book in the series begun by The Pursuit of Love. This is the story of Grace, a British girl who has a whirlwind wartime romance with an irresistible French nobleman, Charles-Edouard de Valhubert. They marry quickly but then don't see each other again for 7 years. At war's end, Charles-Edouard returns and takes Grace and their son Sigi (The Blessing of the title) to his home in France. There Grace and Sigi must learn to adjust to life in new circumstances, with humorous results.

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