For the story of Jane Eyre, Paris is an important location that drives the character development of Mr. Rochester while representing his overt desire, hedonistic tendencies, and moral ambiguity. In Paris, Rochester has an affair with Céline Varens, who represents the complete opposite of Jane Eyre with her materialistic, selfish, and lustful personality. During her affair with Rochester, Varens keeps another lover, with whom she mocks Rochester and admits her relationship with him to be purely transactional. In the end, their bastard daughter Adele is born, and thus, Paris represents (for Rochester), the beginning of his decent into resentment. Within the greater themes of Jane Eyre, Paris highlights the puritanical ideals threaded throughout the story, and it does this by existing as the complete opposite of what was praised in England at the time. Mapping this location shows how things that happened hundreds of miles away can still come back to haunt the narrative. All of my information came from either my brain or "The French aire in Jane Eyre."
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Research: https://journals.openedition.org/cve/839?lang=en
Photographs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_in_the_18th_century https://www.esquire.com/uk/food-drink/a46783096/paris-travel-guide/