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Zhanna's Herbarium

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France, mid-18th century. Young Jeanne adores nature and has a keen understanding of plants, but a career in science is barred for a peasant orphan—only hard labor on the farm awaits her. However, the world is not without its kind people, and the talented girl is hired as an assistant by a renowned Dijon apothecary, who, on the side, teaches her the basics of botany.

It is in the apothecary's house that Jeanne meets the renowned physician and naturalist Philibert Commerson, a young widower seeking a nanny for his newborn son. The intelligent and insightful Jeanne quickly becomes his secretary and assistant, and then his lover. Unable to openly express their feelings, which would have been contrary to the morals of the time, the couple moves to Paris, and soon Commerson is invited to take part in the first French circumnavigation of the globe, under the command of Antoine de Bougainville. Are the lovers really destined to part? After all, women are not allowed on Royal Navy ships...
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