Five Things about Madeleine

Claire Forlani has got that intelligent, refined French look – just right for Madeleine Laurent – but she is in fact born of an English mother and an Italian father – and she just happens to be married to a Scotsman, Dougray Scott, who is a perfect role model for Caleb Stewart.  What do you know?

Five things you might not know about Madeleine.

1. How did honorable, cultivated, educated Madeleine end up married to Gerard Durand?  Easily enough, as it happens.  Firstly Gerard was a handsome man, regarded as the “catch” of the village when Madeleine returned home to live with her ailing mother after teaching school in another village where she’d fallen uselessly in love with the married school principal. And her mother nagged her relentlessly about missing her chance.
2. So she was on the rebound, dear reader, and talked herself into marriage as a business, where civilised parties made commitments to fulfil certain roles and learned to pull together and – if they were fortunate – ultimately find some sort of love and intimacy.
3. She loves her books – she’s read most of Shakespeare in English – and she is a gifted artist but has never been able to develop her talent because she’s been earning a living.
4. Her father was a big talking dreamer who never carried through on any of his inflated ideas, making him a laughing stock. Her cheeks still flush red with shame at his empty boasts.
5. Despite looking like a goddess, she is steady, solemn and hard-working, quite unlike her younger sister Francine, who is the center of attention in any room, pretty, quick, and outrageous.

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