Sarah’s Key

Sarah’s Key

by

Tatiana De Rosnay

Gaspard and Nicolas Dufaure Character Analysis

Jules and Geneviève’s grandsons, and Sarah Starzynski’s adoptive brothers. Julia conducts an interview with Gaspard, in which she learns of Sarah’s marriage to Richard Rainsferd and in which Gaspard pushes her to articulate why Sarah’s story is so important to her. By the end of the novel, Julia also meets Nicolas when she invites the Dufaure brothers to meet her father-in-law, Edouard, a man who is also part of Sarah’s story. Gaspard and Nicolas remember Sarah as a quiet and serious girl. Growing up, all Gaspard and Nicolas knew about Sarah was that she had been adopted by Jules and Geneviève. Only after the death of their grandparents did the Dufaure brothers learn that Sarah was Jewish and her given name was Starzynski.

Gaspard and Nicolas Dufaure Quotes in Sarah’s Key

The Sarah’s Key quotes below are all either spoken by Gaspard and Nicolas Dufaure or refer to Gaspard and Nicolas Dufaure . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
Remembrance and History Theme Icon
).
Chapter 47 Quotes

After my conversation with my sister, I lay on the sofa for a long time, my hand folded over my stomach like a protective shield. Little by little, I felt vitality pumping back into me.
As ever, I thought of Sarah Starzynski, and of what I now knew. I had not needed to tape Gaspard Dufaure. Nor jot anything down. It was all written inside me.

Related Characters: Julia Jarmond (speaker), Sarah “Sirka” Starzynski , Charla , Gaspard and Nicolas Dufaure
Page Number: 188
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Gaspard and Nicolas Dufaure Quotes in Sarah’s Key

The Sarah’s Key quotes below are all either spoken by Gaspard and Nicolas Dufaure or refer to Gaspard and Nicolas Dufaure . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
Remembrance and History Theme Icon
).
Chapter 47 Quotes

After my conversation with my sister, I lay on the sofa for a long time, my hand folded over my stomach like a protective shield. Little by little, I felt vitality pumping back into me.
As ever, I thought of Sarah Starzynski, and of what I now knew. I had not needed to tape Gaspard Dufaure. Nor jot anything down. It was all written inside me.

Related Characters: Julia Jarmond (speaker), Sarah “Sirka” Starzynski , Charla , Gaspard and Nicolas Dufaure
Page Number: 188
Explanation and Analysis: