La Mere Bauche is a romance novel. Madame Bauche is an illustrious widow and proprietor of a respected hotel in the village of Vernet in the Eastern Pyrenees, on the French border with Spain. The kind woman had graciously taken in the orphaned Marie Clavert and raised her until she is now a young woman. But Madame Bauche is shocked when her youngest son Adolphe falls in love and is set to marry Marie. Together with her friend, Le Capitaine, they set on trying to separate the two young people with unexpected results…
