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"Benjamine : roman" by Jean Aicard is a novel written in the early 20th century. It centers on Benjamine, a thoughtful young woman in Cannes, whose domineering father, the shrewd deputy-financier Paul Guirand, plans a marriage of convenience with the Marquis de Courcieux while she harbors a sincere, long-nurtured affection for her childhood friend Jean Montchanin. The story sets love and integrity against ambition, social calculation, and political maneuvering under the glittering light of the Riviera. The opening of the novel presents Guirand’s character—an eloquent, self-styled “experimental” republican whose ambition overrides scruple—and shows him bluntly decreeing his daughter’s marriage to Courcieux. We meet Benjamine’s moral anchor, her discreet and upright governess Mlle Berthe Lireux, and her mother Céleste, a sentimental but compliant social climber who urges submission and even quotes Shakespeare to lecture her on kisses. A backstory explains how the late marquise of Courci
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