# Ourika

By Claire de Durfort Duras, duchesse de.

"Ourika" by Claire de Duras is a novel published in 1823. A young Senegalese girl is rescued from slavery and raised in Paris high society, educated and refined like any aristocratic French woman. But at twelve, she overhears a devastating conversation that shatters her innocence: what man would marry a Black woman? This realization awakens her to the racial barriers she never knew existed, triggering a profound psychological crisis that will shape her tragic fate in post-Revolutionary France. (Summary by Project Gutenberg, written by machine.)

- Language: French
- Subjects: France -- Fiction; Race relations -- Fiction; Women, Black -- Fiction; Africans -- France -- Fiction

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