Clara Prunaire is a salesgirl at the Ladies’ Paradise. She has red hair and a “horse-like” face. She leads a promiscuous lifestyle and doesn’t care about anyone’s feelings. She bullies Denise mercilessly and has an affair with Mouret after Denise rejects him. When she discovers that Colomban lusts after her, she decides to inveigle him away from Geneviève just for fun, and then later rejects him. She ultimately leaves her job at the Ladies’ Paradise; some people believe she becomes a prostitute.
Clara Prunaire Quotes in The Ladies’ Paradise
The The Ladies’ Paradise quotes below are all either spoken by Clara Prunaire or refer to Clara Prunaire . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 8
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It was true, it was stealing everything from them: from the father, his money; from the mother, her dying child; from the daughter, a husband for whom she had waited ten years.
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Clara Prunaire Quotes in The Ladies’ Paradise
The The Ladies’ Paradise quotes below are all either spoken by Clara Prunaire or refer to Clara Prunaire . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 8
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It was true, it was stealing everything from them: from the father, his money; from the mother, her dying child; from the daughter, a husband for whom she had waited ten years.
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