Author

Claire de Durfort Duras

1777-1828

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Subjects

Africans -- France -- Fiction France -- Fiction Race relations -- Fiction Women, Black -- Fiction France -- Social life and customs -- 18th century -- Fiction French fiction -- 19th century Romance fiction

Books by Claire de Durfort Duras

Ourika

"Ourika" by Claire de Duras is a novel published in 1823. A young enslaved girl is rescued from the slave trade and raised in aristocratic Parisian society. Educated and cultured, she lives unaware of racial barriers until a devastating conversation forces her to confront how the world sees her. As she falls in love with someone beyond her reach, she must navigate a society that cannot see past her skin color. This groundbreaking work depicts the first complex black woman narrator in French literature.

Edouard

"Edouard" by duchesse de Claire de Durfort Duras is a novel written in 1821 or 1822 and published in 1825. It tells the story of an impossible love between Édouard, son of a wealthy bourgeois, and the Duchess of Nevers. Though drawn to each other, their relationship faces an insurmountable barrier: social class difference. When Édouard's guardian refuses permission for their marriage due to his common birth, tragedy follows both lovers. Recognized as an attack against class prejudices, it remains Duras's second novel within the Romantic movement.