They take her in, and she lives with them for twelve years as their servant, until she wins ten thousand francs in the French lottery. One rainy night a fugitive Frenchwoman arrives half-dead on the sisters' doorstep. Fifteen years later, the two women are still alone the Dean their father is dead, and they struggle to hold together his splintering church. As young women, they both were beautiful, heavenly-minded, and uninterested in marriage, but each had a failed love affair with a man from the "outside" world. "Babette's Feast" takes place in the small town of Berlevaag in Norway in the late 1800s, and centers around two sisters: Martine and Philippa, the daughters of the Dean of a strict Christian sect. What is more, it is a tiny masterpiece of grace. A simple story about a dinner, it is also an expansive story about the interplay of art, time, destiny, failure, and gratitude. In style it is stark but shining in plot it is unpretentious-indeed nothing more than one long anecdote-but also a complex interweaving of characters and years. Luminously realistic and profoundly intricate, Dinesen's stories all celebrate physicality as something deeply spiritual. Malnourished and starving, under the dread necessity of making sense of her life, Dinesen wrote a story about a meal. A failed marriage and failed love affair had left her with no children she had been nominated for but had failed to win the Nobel Prize. Barely able to eat, she weighed less than 80 pounds. She had contracted syphilis from her husband early in life and likely had arsenic poisoning from the treatment. When Danish short-story author Isak Dinesen (1885–1962) wrote "Babette's Feast," she was in her seventies and already dying. The Surprising Beauty of Divine Providence in Isak Dinesen's "Babette's Feast" The Artistry of Grace by Leta Sundet Feature The Artistry
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