Marie-Adelaide, born under X, has rage in her belly; she has a destiny, but does not yet know which one. Not the cashier at La Miche Dorée. Not that of her rare friends, some known in prison, other comrades of galley and wandering. Could this be the nanny of the impeccable children of the Sublime? Or to find her mother at all costs? Her destiny, she goes to seek it with the means at her disposal: the nerve, the striking speech, the scathing humor, the insubordination in her milieu, the revolt against all conventions. She is a heroine of our time.--Translation of back cover by Babelio.
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