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Vinçard
Jean is Denise’s younger brother. He is very handsome, with delicate, feminine features. He lives and works at an ivory carving shop in Paris. Throughout the novel, he causes Denise much anxiety by having affairs that incur the jealousy and wrath of the husbands and fathers of his mistresses. Denise is forced to give him her hard-earned money to hush up these affairs. At the end of the novel, he marries Therese.
Jean Quotes in The Ladies’ Paradise
The The Ladies’ Paradise quotes below are all either spoken by Jean or refer to Jean . 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:
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Chapter 1
Quotes
The laces shivered, then dropped again, concealing the depths of the shop with an exciting air of mystery; even the lengths of cloth, thick and square, were breathing, exuding a tempting odor, while the overcoats were throwing back their shoulders still more on the dummies, which were acquiring souls, and the huge velvet coat was billowing out, supple and warm, as if on the shoulders of flesh and blood, with a heaving breast and quivering hips.
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Jean Quotes in The Ladies’ Paradise
The The Ladies’ Paradise quotes below are all either spoken by Jean or refer to Jean . 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:
).
Chapter 1
Quotes
The laces shivered, then dropped again, concealing the depths of the shop with an exciting air of mystery; even the lengths of cloth, thick and square, were breathing, exuding a tempting odor, while the overcoats were throwing back their shoulders still more on the dummies, which were acquiring souls, and the huge velvet coat was billowing out, supple and warm, as if on the shoulders of flesh and blood, with a heaving breast and quivering hips.
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