La Blanche: Female slave of mixed ancestry. ... When she looks at her child, then at the quadroon "the son of La Blanche, one of their slaves "her "blood turned like ice in her veins, and a clammy moisture gathered upon her face," the narrator says. ... "As white as La Blanche's, " he says. ... However, conversation between Desiree and Madame Valmonde indicates that he apparently found time for La Blanche, the slave woman whose name (French for white) suggests that she was of mixed heritage, with light skin that made her a tolerable sexual object for Armand. Desiree, speaking o...

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