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A lineal descendant of Frances Parkinson Keyes' last novel, "Blue Camellia," the story of Victorine concerns the return of a cosmopolitan, half-Jewish, half-Roman Catholic girl to Louisiana with her father, a successful merchant and dress designer who has come home to die.
First publish date: 1958
Authors: Frances Parkinson Keyes
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