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Pépé is Denise’s youngest brother. When the siblings arrive in Paris at the beginning of The Ladies’ Paradise, Pépé is five years old. While she works at the Ladies’ Paradise, Denise keeps Pépé in a boardinghouse for small children. Eventually, she sends him to school in Paris. When the novel ends, Pépé is 12 years old.
Pépé Quotes in The Ladies’ Paradise
The The Ladies’ Paradise quotes below are all either spoken by Pépé or refer to Pépé . 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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Pépé Quotes in The Ladies’ Paradise
The The Ladies’ Paradise quotes below are all either spoken by Pépé or refer to Pépé . 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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