The Woman Who Survived A Shipwreck, Starvation, And Isolation — The Incredible Story Of Marguerite De La Rocque
What was it like to encounter the social reality that she was, in the framework of her society, a woman whose story involved a romantic transgression for which she had been publicly punished?
The island had been both punishment and vindication — punishment because Roberval imposed it, vindication because she survived it and he did not.
But the French social world of the 1540s may not have resolved that paradox so neatly.
She had survived something extraordinary.
She was also a woman whose guardian had found it appropriate to exile her for immorality.
Both of those things were true simultaneously, and the social world she returned to would have related to both of them in complex ways.
Did people admire her?
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