She journeys on alone and meets her future lover, Gaëtan, who invites her to go to war with him. Isabelle evacuates Paris, along with thousands of others, and is separated from her companions in the crowd. Julien reluctantly allows her to stay with him, but he soon changes his mind when the Germans break through the French defensive line and approach Paris. Meanwhile, Isabelle is expelled from a French girls’ school and sent home to her estranged father, Julien, in Paris. When Vianne’s husband, Antoine, is conscripted to fight for France against the attacking Germans, Vianne and their daughter, Sophie, try to continue normal life in Carriveau without him, imagining that he will return soon.
The Nightingale covers five primary periods in the lives of Vianne (Rossignol) Mauriac and Isabelle Rossignol:
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