![]() ![]() Later, after his return and the death of his father, he becomes a notary to help the repressed. The second son of the family, Pierre, has no interest in glass and is sent away by the family to Martinique to work with a rich planter. This leads him into financial trouble and needs to be rescued by his father. The eldest son, Robert shows a lot of talent as a glassblower but is desperate to be part of higher society. The Bussons were a successful family of glassblowers who produced high quality pieces for the aristocracy. After meeting him and finding confirming who he is, Sophie tells the story of her family and how Robert's son grew up in England not knowing of his family in France. Sophie arranges to meet the man, Louis-Mathurin Busson, having established that he is the son of her eldest brother Robert. In 1841, Sophie Duval receives a letter from her daughter, Zoe, telling of a man she has met who shares her mother's maiden name. The story is based loosely on du Maurier's own family history, she being a fifth-generation descendant of a master glassblower who had moved to England during the French Revolution. ![]() ![]() The novel tells the story of a French family of glassblowers, the Bussons, charting their journey before, during and after the French Revolution. The Glass-Blowers is a 1963 novel by Daphne du Maurier. ![]()
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