Likewise, she wants to be alone to avoid her tenants' curiosity. She is an autodidact in literature and philosophy, but conceals it to keep her job and, she believes, to avoid the condemnation of the building's tenants. The widow Renée is a concierge who has supervised the building for 27 years. The story revolves mainly around the characters of Renée Michel and Paloma Josse, residents of an upper-middle class Left Bank apartment building at 7 Rue de Grenelle – one of the most elegant streets in Paris.ĭivided into eight luxury apartments, all occupied by distinctly bourgeois families, the building has a courtyard and private garden. The Elegance of the Hedgehog is a novel by the French novelist and philosophy teacher Muriel Barbery. L' Elegance du Herisson = The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery
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