The story within this beautiful limited edition is about Virginie, an 11-year-old girl leading two lives - one as a servant to the aristocratic Seigneur, a creator of erotically receptive women for the decadent nobility, in 1740; the other as the young sister to a Parisian taxi driver, a patron of a circle of prostitutes, in 1945.
Needless to say which of the two reviewers (as I currently post) I tend to agree with. Apart from anything else this book has my favourite-of-all-time definition of love: "Innocence is the clarity with which the self shows forth the self. Love is the respect we feel for innocence."
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