One of Sue’s Seven Cardinal Sins novels opens with Commander Bernard, a retired naval hero living modestly in Paris, and widens into the world of fortune-hunters, duellists and fashionable balls that surrounds Ernestine de Beaumesnil, the richest heiress in France. Pride, in one form or another, drives nearly every character.
Panoramic Parisian melodrama from the author of The Mysteries of Paris. Download the free EPUB.