La Mere Bauche

La Mere Bauche, an autocratic innkeeper in the Eastern Pyrenees, was excessively ambitious for her only son’s future. She had adopted an orphan girl, Marie Calvert, and brought her up as a daughter of the house until she learned that her son also loved the girl. The marriage would have made impossible her dreams for Adolphe’s success in life, and she sent him away for a year’s travel, planning to ...