Patsy Jefferson goes to France with her father Thomas, attends a convent school where she considers becoming a nun, meets French society, and -- as can be predicted halfway through the story -- returns home to marry her cousin. Though ostensiblyMorePatsy Jefferson goes to France with her father Thomas, attends a convent school where she considers becoming a nun, meets French society, and -- as can be predicted halfway through the story -- returns home to marry her cousin.
Though ostensibly non-fiction, this insipid account consists primarily of improvised dialogue with no internal clues to indicate where fact ends and imagination takes over. Patsy herself has no defined personality, and her experiences merely provide an excuse for a travelogue of late 18th century France as seen through the eyes of a naive and jingoistic American.