Paris, France in Sanctuary (Location)

"Paris" first appears in the novel in a comparison which establishes the third-person narrator as a cosmopolitan: Ruby and Lee's child looks like "the children which beggars on Paris streets carry" (116). The French city is also the scene of the novel's last event, which describes Temple Drake with her father on a bench "in the Luxembourg Gardens" in Paris (316). While this novel does not mention Horace Benbow's experience in France in World War I - a significant part of his biography in the earlier novel Flags in the Dust, Sanctuary does include one other character who has been to France: Lee Goodwin, who was paroled from the military prison in Leavenworth in order to fight in that war. Lee tells Horace only that he served "in an infantry regiment in France" (109).