Once on Esplanbade the fashionable avenue of New Orleans in the 1880's, Marie Louise Villere grew to womanhood. Her story begins with the wedding of her sister and ends with her own nine years later. During the interval the delighted reader comes to know Marie as a real person and the elegant, joyous city of New Orleans as a place of grace and almost fairytale enchantment.
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