The Dressmaker's Gift by Fiona Valpy

Author:Fiona Valpy [Valpy, Fiona]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2019-09-30T16:00:00+00:00

Harriet

Just when I was starting to feel a bit more admiration for Claire, being brave enough to agree to become a passeuse and take the Free French airman on the dangerous journey to escape through Brittany, she seems to be falling in love with another womaniser. I can only hope Monsieur Leroux isn’t going to break her heart all over again. He sounds almost as unsuitable as Ernst, this good-looking Lothario. He sounds as if he used women, even if it was for the sake of the underground network that he ran.

I have a horrible feeling that history is going to repeat itself and Claire is never going to learn any lessons from her mistakes.

But then, do any of us, ever?

Some of the rooms in the Palais Galliera are closed today, as they are changing the exhibitions. Jeanne Lanvin’s creations – and that Lanvin-blue dress with the silver beads – are being returned to the archives in the basement of the museum where they will be carefully preserved until the next time they are brought out. I sit outside, on one of the benches that circle the building, among the statues that are dotted through the palace grounds, writing down the latest instalment of Claire’s story.

My phone buzzes and I smile when I see Thierry’s name on the screen. And then I smile even more broadly when he asks if I’d like to meet up for dinner tonight, at a little bistro he knows of that serves the best moules-frites in Paris.

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