Heloise can hire a drawing master for her child and it can be Marianne.
I LOVE IT, A++ futurefic idea. It's still before the Revolution, I'm assuming? Marianne has become a successful painter (like Elisabeth Vigee Lebrun) and normally she wouldn't have time to tutor a child, but then she sees it's HELOISE who has written to her... well. (And then Heloise's husband loses his head in the Revolution and Heloise and Marianne flee France together and spend the rest of their lives in conjugal bliss in an English cottage by the sea?)
And YES, I loved the way the movie set up this idea of a women's world that is mostly outside of the public eye - the sense of transgression when Marianne DOES document it, by sketching the abortion (and even then you know it's a sketch that will never be exhibited: the documentation will remain private). In general I loved Sophie's storyline: servants are often basically ciphers in stories like these, so it's good to see her get, you know, actual characterization.
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I LOVE IT, A++ futurefic idea. It's still before the Revolution, I'm assuming? Marianne has become a successful painter (like Elisabeth Vigee Lebrun) and normally she wouldn't have time to tutor a child, but then she sees it's HELOISE who has written to her... well. (And then Heloise's husband loses his head in the Revolution and Heloise and Marianne flee France together and spend the rest of their lives in conjugal bliss in an English cottage by the sea?)
And YES, I loved the way the movie set up this idea of a women's world that is mostly outside of the public eye - the sense of transgression when Marianne DOES document it, by sketching the abortion (and even then you know it's a sketch that will never be exhibited: the documentation will remain private). In general I loved Sophie's storyline: servants are often basically ciphers in stories like these, so it's good to see her get, you know, actual characterization.