Jean+de+Satigny

All I have to say is this man is a creep. First of all, who would marry someone who is pregnant with someone else's baby, and obviously loves someone else? Second, the whole Indian maids and the photagraphy studio thing seems really unnecessary because he had a perfectly good wife. Blanca made the right choice in leaving him.1205188243

I agree with on the sex descriptions. It's starting to get very creepy, and it seems like every man is some sort of sex pervert, with Jean and Esteban Garcia vying for the top spot of creepy behavior. Anyway i did not like how the situation with Jean de Satigny played out. Blanca really had no reason to leave him, he never asked her for anything and at first he just seemed like he really liked the finer things in life. Since i knew not too many men in an Isabel Allende book could be normal, respectable men, i knew something was going to come up that would make Jean look like a bad man. However, his sexual desires are by far the weirdest thing i have ever read about or even heard about. This book is just getting far to weird and sexist

Jean de Satigny seems to have a conflicting personality. He seems refined and mannerly, but then he performs exotic and disturbing activities in his laboratory behind Blanca's back. Another tragedy is the way he squanders the money he receives. Esteban is generous in providing finances for Jean and Blanca, but he has no idea what his money is being used to fund. It is disappointing that the novel doesn't conclude the details of Jean de Satigny's relations to the family. I want to know if Esteban Trueba continued financing Jean de Satigny after Blanca left him.1205198772rhr-ia

Something tells me Esteban did continue to finance Jean. (And if I'm wrong about that someone please correct me!) But it seems to me that the best way to keep Jean from exposing Alba as an illigitimate child would be to keep paying him. And I'm sure Esteban would want to protect his political career. The fact that Jean is a perv could hurt Esteban more than Jean in the end, after all, Esteban did marry off his daughter to the guy.1205609765