{"id":1146,"date":"2020-06-26T18:17:58","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T18:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harrietweltyrochefort.com\/wordpress\/?p=1146"},"modified":"2021-01-01T12:53:14","modified_gmt":"2021-01-01T12:53:14","slug":"paris-places-severine-visits-story-number-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harrietweltyrochefort.com\/?p=1146","title":{"rendered":"Paris places S\u00e9verine visits: Story number one"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In my latest book, Final Transgression<\/em>, my beautiful, high-spirited heroine S\u00e9verine Sevanot embarks on a perilous visit to her hometown in the southwest of France – in spite of warnings not to go there. It is 1944 and the Resistance is busy blowing up train tracks and derailing trains to stop the Nazis. It is probably the worst time to take a train and on top of that the hometown which is her destination is a tinderbox where French r\u00e9sistants are fighting not only the Nazis but their own countrymen, pro-German and pro-Vichy collaborators. The advice is sound, but she ignores it, for S\u00e9verine always does what she wants. The train and the decision to take the trip is an important part of the book – and of her life. Had she listened to the warnings, her destiny would not have taken the dramatic turn that it did (it might have taken another one but that is mere conjecture).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I won’t tell you all about the book – it would take too long. But in this article and articles to come, I am going to take you to some of the places S\u00e9verine goes through brief excerpts from the book that not only show where she is geographically, but where she is in her head. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today’s excerpt takes place on a late winter day in 1944. S\u00e9verine has asked her sister Caroline to accompany her to the Gare d’Austerlitz<\/a>. It’s a surprise request because Caroline has no idea that her sister is planning to leave Paris to return<\/a> to the hometown where they grew up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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