Désirée‘s Baby
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The following summary of the short story „Désirée’s Baby“
, written by Kate Chopin, is about the effect of racial segregation in the 19th century.The reader gets to know Désirée, an adopted woman with unknown origin, which has now a baby onher own. The father of the baby, Armand Aubigny, is part of a wealthy Creole family in Louisiana.