At his school, where he is addressed as Citzen Marquis, Sophie meets the most outlandish contemporaries, but her favourite is the Haitian Toussaint, a small black slave who was a gift to Céline from her English lover. It is the beginning of a great friendship between the dancer and the orphan, who with the passing of the years becomes the favourite student of an old Enlightenment aristocrat, survivor of the French Revolution, the disappointment of the Empire and the Restoration. On a winter evening Sophie, nine-year-old, knocks at the door of the 'star' of the Opéra Céline Varens in order to deliver her some garments manufactured by her mother in their poor Montmartre attic. (Babelfish Translation, revised by BrontëBlog)
If some months ago it was Emma Tennant who (re)told the story of Jane Eyre through Adèle's point of view, now Bianca Pitzorno gives voice to Sophie: Dario has written to us, pointing us to the recent Italian paperback edition of 'La bambinaia francese' (The French Nanny) by Bianca Pitzorno.
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