Two English books, a French setting, and the number three

I have just returned from a three-week trip to North America and ironically the books I bought there and read made me travel back to France, my home country.

My first read comes from Canada: ‘The Reinvention of Love’.

‘The Reinvention of Love’ by Helen Humphreys

The title caught my attention (a famous quote by Rimbaud “Il faut réinventer l’amour”) as well as the name of its protagonists: Victor Hugo, his wife Adèle and the renowned literary critic Charles Sainte-Beuve.

Charles, Adèle and, to a lesser degree Déd…