Duras, Claire de Durfort, duchesse de 1777-1828 creator text utu 2008 monographic fr 1 online resource : multiple file formats "Ourika" by Claire de Duras is a novel published in 1823. A young Senegalese girl is rescued from slavery and raised in Paris high society, educated and refined like any aristocratic French woman. But at twelve, she overhears a devastating conversation that shatters her innocence: what man would marry a Black woman? This realization awakens her to the racial barriers she never knew existed, triggering a profound psychological crisis that will shape her tragic fate in post-Revolutionary France. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ourika Release date is 2008-10-07 Produced by Daniel Fromont Original publication data not identified France -- Fiction Race relations -- Fiction Women, Black -- Fiction Africans -- France -- Fiction PQ Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26820 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26820 UtSlPG 260607 20260610133619.0 26820