num_pages: 221
description: With characteristically amusing malice, Mitford blends a comedy of manners with culture shock as Grace Allingham, a naive English rose, impulsively marries Charles-Edouard de Valhubert, a French nobleman with all his class's charm and decadence. Both are duped, however, by their son Sigismund -- the Blessing of the title -- a juvenile Machiavelli who mixes Gallic cunning with Saxon thoroughness to become one of Mitford's most memorable characters.
language: English
title: The Blessing
titlecomplete: The Blessing
genres: Classics, British Literature, France, Humor, Novels, Romance, 20th Century, Literature, Historical Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 2368
publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub