Marguerite Yourcenar does not really evoke any personal memories of Bailleul: to describe her grandparents' house in Bailleul she refers back to the description of a house in Douai by Balzac in La Recherche de l'Absolu...
Yourcenar Marguerite
The reader then has to grasp the outline of an unknown, hypothetical Flanders, formed from the author’s imagination...
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