Desiree's Baby BY Kate Chopin is about the daughter of Monsieur and Madame Valmond???, who are wealthy French Creoles in antebellum Louisiana. Abandoned as a baby, Desiree was found by Monsieur Valmond??? lying in the shadow of a stone pillar near the Valmond??? gateway. She is courted by the son of another wealthy, well-known and respected French Creole family, Armand. They marry and have a child. People who see the baby have the sense it is different. Eventually they realize that the baby's skin is the same color as a ...
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Desiree's Baby BY Kate Chopin is about the daughter of Monsieur and Madame Valmond???, who are wealthy French Creoles in antebellum Louisiana. Abandoned as a baby, Desiree was found by Monsieur Valmond??? lying in the shadow of a stone pillar near the Valmond??? gateway. She is courted by the son of another wealthy, well-known and respected French Creole family, Armand. They marry and have a child. People who see the baby have the sense it is different. Eventually they realize that the baby's skin is the same color as a quadroon (one-quarter African)--the baby has African ancestry. At the time of the story, this would have been considered a problem for a person believed to be white.
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