The Nightingale covers five primary periods in the lives of Vianne (Rossignol) Mauriac and Isabelle Rossignol: 1. The Early War When Vianne’s husband, Antoine, is conscripted to fight for France against the attacking Germans, Vianne and their daughter, Sophie, try to continue normal life in Carriveau without him, imagining that […]

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Kristin Hannah’s The Nightingale tells the story of Vianne (Rossignol) Mauriac and Isabelle Rossignol, two French sisters who resist the occupying Nazi forces during World War II (WWII) by hiding Jewish children so they are not taken to concentration camps (the Holocaust) and by leading the escape of Allied pilots […]

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