“Florentine… Florentine Lacasse… half song, half squalor, half springtime, half misery, the young man murmured.”

— Gabrielle Roy , book The Tin Flute

Source: The Tin Flute (1945), P. 27

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French Canadian fiction writer 1909–1983

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