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A framed narrative opens when a botanist-traveler recounts events in a pashalik of Asia Minor, centering on Baïla, a seventeen-year-old odalisque who wanders luxuriant gardens with her attendant Mariam, haunted by longing and the sight of an unfamiliar footprint. The tale follows her emotional life within the pasha's household, depicting captivity, desire, and the ritualized textures of Ottoman domestic space through vivid scenes and cultural detail. An appended brief tale about the narrator's great-aunt, who died at sixteen, complements the principal novella with another intimate portrait of youthful fate.

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Title: L'esclave du pacha, suivi de Histoire de ma grand'tante

Author: X.-B. Saintine

Release date: November 18, 2025 [eBook #77266]

Language: French

Original publication: Bruxelles: Meline, Cans et compagnie, 1845

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L’ESCLAVE
DU PACHA

SUIVI DE
HISTOIRE DE MA GRAND’TANTE
(morte à l’âge de seize ans).

PAR
X. B. Saintine.

Bruxelles et Leipzig.
MELINE, CANS ET COMPAGNIE.
LIBRAIRIE, IMPRIMERIE ET FONDERIE.

1845