The PassionThe Passion
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Book, 1987
Current format, Book, 1987, , Available .Henri is a simple farm boy who has joined the army during the Napoleonic wars. He gets a job as a cook and eventually becomes the personal chef to his idol, Napoleon. However, Henri experiences combat during Napoleon's brutal Russian campaign. It is in Russia that Henri meets Villenelle, a young woman from Venice with webbed feet, whose husband sold her to the French army as a prositute. He also meets Partick, an priest excommunicated for watching young women undress. Together these three desert the army and make a journey across Europe to their homes. But when the journey is over they must confront problems from their past, Villenelle's husband, as well as her old lover, and a chef Henri had offended years earlier who still looks for revenge.
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- London : Bloomsbury, 1987.
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