Summary of my novel, "The Robillard Boutique", my "Gone with the Wind" fanfiction

The Boutique Robillard, the other end of Gone With The Wind

What will happen next? For eighty-five years, readers of Gone With the Wind, the masterpiece about the Civil War, by Margaret Mitchell, have dreamed of another END ! In the original story, Rhett Butler leaves Scarlett O'Hara and tells her that he “doesn’t give a damn” about her anymore. Scarlett answers: "Tomorrow is another day !" and leaves for Tara. 

My historical novel “The Boutique Robillard” - that you can follow on this blog, like a serial -  sets up another “after”, another end… maybe.

"Three years after their divorce, Scarlett is the head of "The Boutique Robillard" and becomes the muse of the young and handsome fashion's prince Duncan Vayton, a Charlestonian like Rhett. Our beloved Rhett will have a tough job to win Scarlett's love back from this perfect Prince Charming."

I have created a third character who will drive a wedge between Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara: Duncan Vayton, with his world, his family, and his business empire. And I have embedded with delight in this imaginary story "my" Blanche Augustine Bonsart, my "Grail" of which I speak abundantly on this blog.  

I wanted to emphasize on the most faithful historical reconstitution of society in this specific year. Each chapter deals with a particular area of America and France in 1876, in the fields of art, culture, industry, etc... I have made every effort to specify my research sources: 

• the economic and financial crisis that struck America in 1873 ; 
• the birth of luxury department stores in New York ; 
• July 4, 1876, the Centennial of the American Revolution and, the festivities as they held in Georgia, the speeches, the "toasts", the parade, the "museum" of the weapons of the soldiers of the Civil War, etc... ; 
• The Centennial Exhibit in Philadelphia, with a full description of the fairgrounds, the inventions, 
• the architecture of antebellum houses in Charleston, South Carolina, its flora, and a weird bouncing bench for lovers... ;
• Washington and the "Mall" under construction as it was exactly in 1876 ; 
• cotton, indigo, and textile techniques in the American South in that decade ; 
• fashion and the beginnings of the Haute Couture with Charles Worth in the spotlight ;  
• American music : the songs composed before the Civil War by the famous artist Stephen Foster, which broke the mood of the Confederate soldiers, as well as the Federal Army ; the last "novelties" of 1876 ; a traditional Irish ball with its new song “Molly Malone”; and even “La Paloma” by Sebastian Yradier, just published in America, with the new dance discovered by the composer in Cuba, “La Habanera” ;
• a revolutionary show that shocked many austere souls as early as 1865 for more than ten years, “The Black Crook”, cut into acts as if you were sitting in your chair, with magical mechanical tricks and two hundred "bare legs"! The "first American musical" ;
• the innovative wire "puppets" created by the Englishman Thomas Holden, who was touring the United States at that time ; 
• an in-depth study of the train in the United States in 1876, with the itinerary - and schedules - of a new direct line just created between New Orleans and New York after the absorption of dozens of railroad companies ; the interior of the last model's "sleeping car" of George Pullman that will amaze you ;  the trip in a "private car" resembling a luxury palace ;
• the narrow morals - or not - of the time - and so much more, already described, and to come…..

This fiction is primarily focused on the eternal love – I’d better say - obsessive love - that Rhett Butler feels for Scarlett O'Hara. Even if, in The Boutique Robillard, he has a lot of work to do to correct the masterful mistake of having divorced Mrs. Butler. A seemingly perfect man, handsome, rich, and thoughtful, is about to steal his "muse" Scarlett, the "Thunder of Georgia." If I specify that this Duncan has the features of Michel Le Royer, the French actor at the time when he played in the television series "Corsairs and Freebooters" in 1969, you will have understood the problem which will have to face our seducer of Rhett. 

Whatever, the chemical attraction between these characters infuses some sensuality…on edge.

This novel is published online on two famous American fanfiction websites, https://archiveofourown.org/ and https://www.fanfiction.net/. It is written in French and English versions because 99% of my readers are English-speaking. 

I have transcribed the comments of my readers on my blog, translating them. Combining the two versions on both sites, there are well over 700!

Enjoy your trip back to the Old South in 1876!

Author : Arlette Dambron

Note : my novel The Boutique Robillard is a fanfiction inspired by the novel of Margaret Mitchell. The characters belong to her heirs (except of course the ones I have created and their surroundings.) 

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Reviews of Readers of my GWTW fanfiction The Robillard Boutique - Mémoire de nos Anciens

Reviews updated on 2022, October 28th. The Boutique Robillard is my own fanfiction of the masterpiece Gone with the Wind of Margaret Mitchell. Three years after their divorce, Scarlett is the head ...

https://alarecherchedutempsperdu.over-blog.com/2022/02/reviews-of-readers-of-my-gwtw-fanfiction-the-robillard-boutique.html

Embark with Scarlett, Rhett and the gorgeous Duncan Vayton on Chapter First !

Enjoy your trip back to the Old South in 1876!

Author : Arlette Dambron

Note : my novel The Boutique Robillard is a fanfiction inspired by the novel of Margaret Mitchell. The characters belong to her heirs (except of course the ones I have created and their surroundings.) 

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#Gone with the Wind, #sequel to Gone with the Wind, #end of Gone with the Wind, #historical novel, #US history, 19th century America, American music, Charles Worth, cotton industry, architecture of the Old South, , #GWTW, #Gone with the Wind, #fanfiction, #GWTW fiction, #Civil War, #Old South, #19th century America, #passion, #writing, #love novel, #Arlette Dambron, #novelist, #french writer.

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Start to read The Boutique Robillard - Chapter 1. The divorce!

Rhett Butler divorces from Scarlett O'Hara on Gone with the Wind fandom The Boutique Robillard

Note : my novel The Boutique Robillard is a fanfiction inspired by the novel of Margaret Mitchell. The characters belong to her heirs (except of course the ones I have created and their surroundings.)