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Nastasie Leroux (Barette)
Félicité’s nephew, the son of Felicite’s sister Nastasie. When Virginie Aubain dies, Félicité develops a close relationship with her nephew. He brings her gifts from his travels, and she provides him with food and money to take home to his family. Félicité is greatly distressed when Victor announces that he has taken a job for two years at sea, and she runs ten miles to see him off only to miss his ship as it pulls away from the harbor. After failing to hear from her nephew for many months, Félicité learns that he has died (she later learns that he passed away due to poor medical treatment after he contracted yellow fever). Though she loses many loved ones throughout the story, Victor’s death is one of the most painful events of Félicité’s life.
Victor Leroux Quotes in A Simple Heart
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Chapter 2 Quotes
Félicité became very attached to them. She bought them a blanket, some shirts and a cooking stove. They were obviously out to take advantage of her. Madame Aubain was annoyed that Félicité was not more firm with them. She also took objection to the familiar way in which the nephew spoke to Paul.”
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When Félicité and the Aubain family travel to the seaside town of Trouville, Félicité happens upon her sister Nastasie, from whom she was separated as a child. These lines describe the way in which Félicité instantly began to care for Nastasie’s family after the chance meeting. The sentence “They were obviously out to take advantage of her, is not included as piece of dialogue or one of Félicité’s thoughts, so it appears to come directly from the narrator. Madame Aubain shares the narrator’s distrust of the Leroux family, and—even further—combines that distrust with her general aversion to the working-class poor. Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor
Chapter 3 Quotes
His parents always told him to make sure he brought something back with him, a bag of sugar, a piece of soap, a little brandy or even money. He brought with him any of his clothes that needed mending and Félicité always did the work willingly, glad of any opportunity of encouraging him to visit her again.
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This quotation describes the period of time in which Victor Leroux—Félicité’s nephew—visits Félicité on Sunday afternoons at the Aubain household. Though the two develop a closer relationship as a result of these visits, and appear to sincerely enjoy each other’s company, the narrator informs readers here that Victor’s parents use the visits to continue taking advantage of Félicité. In the same way that Félicité did not recognize Théodore’s true character during their relationship, she also appears not to notice the Leroux’s opportunism (or perhaps, as the passage suggests, simply disregards it because she wants the visits to continue). Flaubert’s description Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium r
Although Félicité had been fed such rough treatment since she was a child, she felt very offended by Madame Aubain. But she soon got over it. After all, it was to be expected that Madame should get upset about her own daughter. For Félicité, the two children were of equal importance; they were bound together by her love for them and it seemed right that they should share the same fate.
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This description refers to Madame Aubain’s comments about Félicité’s nephew. When Félicité tells an anxious Madame Aubain—who has not heard from her daughter in days—that she has not received news from her nephew in months, Madame Aubain remarks that the situation is different because Victor is a poor “scrounger.” The paragraph not only demonstrates how much Madame Aubain’s cruel and classist comments hurt Félicité, but also draws a contrast between the ways in which Félicité and Madame Aubain value others. Félicité believes that Virginie Aubain and Victor Leroux “[are] of equal importance”; therefore, it makes sense to her that they Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim
Much later, she came to learn the circumstances of Victor’ s death from the captain of his ship. He had caught yellow fever and had been bled too much in the hospital. Four separate doctors had given him the same treatment and he had died immediately. The chief doctor’s comment was, ‘Good, that’s one more to add to the list!’
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This passage provides another clear example of an individual’s capacity to commit an act of cruelty to a member of a lower social class. Though Félicité is devastated by the news that her nephew has died while working at sea, she is not initially told the cause of his death. This passage indicates that she is able to learn the information at a later date. Here, readers are reminded of the often brutal and ineffective nature of medical care in the 19th century. For one, Victor died from being “bled too much” by doctors—in other words, he died from the Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque omnis. Velit eaque error. Possimus corrupti soluta. Qui aut a. Rerum voluptas debitis. Voluptatem accusantium est. Mollitia eaque ipsa. Perferendis consectetur et. Dicta impedit ut. Ducimus possimus quo. Non inventore in. Eligendi atque
Chapter 4 Quotes
As she came to the top of the hill at Ecquemauville, she saw the lights of Honfleur twinkling in the night like clusters of stars and, beyond them, the sea, stretching dimly into the distance. She was suddenly overcome with a fit of giddiness and her wretched childhood, the disappointment of her first love affair, the departure of her nephew and the death of Virginie all came flooding back to her like the waves of an incoming tide, welling up inside her and taking her breath away.
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Anxious that the package containing her parrot’s lifeless body will not reach its destination, Félicité travels miles on foot in order to hand-deliver the box to a mail-carrying ship. She undertakes this journey at night, braving the bitter cold as well as her own exhaustion, and is almost hit by a carriage approaching in the dark. The passage above describes a quiet moment during this difficult journey, when Félicité is struck by the full weight of all of the traumas and hardships of her life at once. Throughout the novella, the narrator tracks the development of Félicité’s religious devotion, as Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque omnis. Velit eaque error. Possimus corrupti soluta. Qui aut a. Rerum volu
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Victor Leroux Character Timeline in A Simple Heart
The timeline below shows where the character Victor Leroux appears in A Simple Heart. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 3
...school, Félicité begins feeling lonely, and receives permission from Madame Aubain to invite her nephew Victor Leroux to regularly visit her.0100
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Félicité develops a close relationship with Victor as a result of his visits. He brings her gifts from his travels at sea...
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In the middle of the summer, Victor signs up for a two-year job at sea. Hoping to say goodbye to him as...
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Félicité worries constantly about Victor, imagining all the tragedies that might befall him. Meanwhile, the nuns at the convent report...
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A letter arrives at the Aubain household to inform Félicité that her nephew Victor has died. Madame Aubain suggests that Félicité go and visit her sister, but Félicité refuses,...
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...“resolving that it would never be separated from her.” At Virginie’s funeral, Félicité imagines that Victor is being buried alongside Virginie, particularly because she was never able to properly bury him....
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...part because it comes from America, and the idea of America always reminds her of Victor.
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