With characteristically amusing malice, mitford blends a comedy of manners with culture shock as grace allingham, a naive English rose, impulsively marries charles-edouard de valhubert, a French nobleman with all His Cla...With characteristically amusing malice, mitford blends a comedy of manners with culture shock as grace allingham, a naive English rose, impulsively marries charles-edouard de valhubert, a French nobleman with all His Class's charm and decadence.