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Several weeks after Désirée disappears, Armand has the enslaved workers build a bonfire behind the house at L’Abri. He sits in the grand hallway and watches as they put all of the baby’s expensive clothes and cradle on the fire, followed by Désirée’s fine clothing and linens. He adds a last item to the fire— Désirée’s innocent love letters, written during their courtship. But one letter remains in the drawer where the love notes were kept. After Armand reads it, for reasons the story does not give, he puts it back in the drawer.
The letter is from his mother to his father. In it, his mother thanks God that Armand, who was only eight when his mother died in Paris, will never know that she was a Black woman.
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