"Villette is an 1853 novel written by English author Charlotte Bront . After an unspecified family disaster, the protagonist Lucy Snowe travels from her native England to the fictional French-speaking city of Villette to teach at a girls' school, where she is drawn into adventure and romance.Villette was Charlotte Bront 's third and last novel; it was preceded by The Professor (her posthumously published first novel, of which Villette is a reworking),...