Tuesday 31 October 2017

Volume 2: Book 10 - Chapter 17

Characters Present:

Julie Drubetskaya
Pierre Bezukhov

Location:

Moscow at a social gathering, hosted by Julie Drubetskaya 


The people at the gathering gossip about the French, who are getting closer to Moscow, and decide that they, the people in polite society, should all stop speaking French now.

The Rostov family come up in conversation, and Julie tells Pierre that she knows that there is a romance between him and Natasha. Pierre denies it.

They then discuss Nicholas Rostov's rescue of Princess Mary Bolkónskaya, and the budding romance between them.