The Comte de Fontaine, an old Vendéen royalist, has married off his children well under the Restoration, but his youngest daughter Émilie rejects every suitor who is not a peer of France. At a public ball at Sceaux she falls for a handsome stranger and must find out whether he is a gentleman or, worse, someone in trade.
A sharp short novel of pride and class from The Human Comedy. Download the free EPUB.