... racial ancestry. Monsieur and Madame Valmonde: Childless husband and wife who found Desiree when she was a baby. After adopting her, they lovingly reared her. La Blanche: Female slave of mixed ancestry. Zandrine: Female slave who helps Desiree care for her child. Negrillon: Male slave who pretends to have suffered a ... the bed, her baby sleeps soundly. A quadroon boy is fanning him. When she looks at her child, then at the quadroon "the son of La Blanche, one of their slaves "her "blood turned like ice in her veins, and a clammy moisture gathered upon her face," the narrator says. ... o...

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