La Vengeance Du Pardon Chapter Summaries
Part 1:
• Elise is moving from Paris to an apartment near the prison in Alsace
• He is being imprisoned for life in Ensisheim
• Elise has 3 sisters who think that she is crazy for moving for him
• Elise pretends that she has been seeing a psychologist and that he approves of her
move and says that it will be important for her healing process
• This helps her sisters accept her move
• Elise works by translating pieces
• For the past 5 years, Elise has felt no emotions or sympathy
• Elise promises that she will return after her recovery
• She feels that naming what she has lost will make it true
• Elise is the youngest sister
• Elise has 5 locks on her door and multiple alarms
• Elise reveals that she stole the psychologist’s business card from a friend’s house
Part 2:
• Elise has moved into a cheap, plain studio apartment in Ensisheim
• She is not sure why she has chosen to punish herself by choosing such an apartment
• A black cat frequents her garden but disappears when he sees her
Part 3:
• Saturday – 1st visit
• Elise first visits Sam 2 weeks after she has arrived in Ensisheim
• The prison used to be a convent
• The prison is very similar to the prison in Paris
• There were only women in the waiting room
• She knew that they wanted to ask her what relationship she had with the man that
she was visiting
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Part 1:
• Elise is moving from Paris to an apartment near the prison in Alsace
• He is being imprisoned for life in Ensisheim
• Elise has 3 sisters who think that she is crazy for moving for him
• Elise pretends that she has been seeing a psychologist and that he approves of her
move and says that it will be important for her healing process
• This helps her sisters accept her move
• Elise works by translating pieces
• For the past 5 years, Elise has felt no emotions or sympathy
• Elise promises that she will return after her recovery
• She feels that naming what she has lost will make it true
• Elise is the youngest sister
• Elise has 5 locks on her door and multiple alarms
• Elise reveals that she stole the psychologist’s business card from a friend’s house
Part 2:
• Elise has moved into a cheap, plain studio apartment in Ensisheim
• She is not sure why she has chosen to punish herself by choosing such an apartment
• A black cat frequents her garden but disappears when he sees her
Part 3:
• Saturday – 1st visit
• Elise first visits Sam 2 weeks after she has arrived in Ensisheim
• The prison used to be a convent
• The prison is very similar to the prison in Paris
• There were only women in the waiting room
• She knew that they wanted to ask her what relationship she had with the man that
she was visiting
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