Original sentence: Repressing his feelings for Vallier, Doucet becomes acquainted with, and later engaged to marry, Lydie-Anne (Alexander Chapman), a young Parisian baroness who is visiting Roberval  on the motive of having met Vallier's estranged father in Paris and him having mentioned Roberval
Edited sentence: Repressing his feelings for Vallier, Doucet becomes acquainted with, and later engaged to marry, Lydie-Anne (Alexander Chapman), a young Parisian baroness who is visiting Roberval on the motive of having met Vallier's estranged father in Paris and him having mentioned Roberval