02270cam a22003013u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000300011324500830014326400510022630000470027733600260032433700260035033800360037650000310041250801670044352012050061053400450181565300480186085600430190899900170195141299UtSlPG20260610133938.0mcr n260607r2012||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPQ1 aKock, Paul de,d1793-187114aThe Flower Girl of The Château d'Eau, v.1 (Novels of Paul de Kock Volume XV) 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2012  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aRelease date is 2012-11-05  aProduced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed
Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was
produced from images available at The Internet Archive)  a"The Flower Girl of The Château d'Eau, v.1" by Paul de Kock is a novel written in the mid-19th century. The story revolves around Violette, a young flower girl with a charming background, who navigates her life in Paris. The narrative conveys themes of familial love, social class, and the pursuit of happiness amidst adversity.  At the start of the novel, we are introduced to the bustling flower market on Boulevard Saint-Martin in Paris. It is here that we meet the Glumeau family—Madame Glumeau and her children, Eolinde and Astianax—who are deliberating over which flowers to buy for the father's fête-day. The passage reveals insights into the dynamics of their family life, particularly through the humorous exchanges between the siblings and their mother. Simultaneously, we are introduced to Violette, the flower girl, whose beauty and grace draw attention as she serves a variety of customers, some of whom show interest in her beyond just the flowers she sells. Her background is gradually uncovered, indicating a poignant backstory of abandonment and resilience, laying the groundwork for her character's development in the narrative. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  nOriginal publication data not identified  aFrench fiction -- Translations into English40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41299  c82138d82138