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My face might be dirty and my skin all wrinkled, Mister, but my hands are clean!" Thus speaks la Sagouine – without doubt the most famous character to spring from the imagination of Antonine Maillet, the renowned Acadian playwright and recipient of France's prestigious Prix Goncourt. But la Sagouine is not just an imaginary figure; she's a flesh-and-blood creature, a poor woman who was born near the sea, who can't read or write, who spends her days scrubbing floors. This Acadian woman, with her rich vocabulary and ready tongue, observes human behaviour in a manner worthy of French writer and moralist Jean de La Bruyère. She is the voice of her people, expressing its wisdom, its soul.
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