Claude Melnotte, a gardener’s son with a poet’s heart, is scorned by Pauline Deschappelles, the haughty beauty of Lyons. Two rejected suitors use his passion for revenge, passing him off as a foreign prince so that the marriage will humiliate her. Set in the years of the French Republic, the play follows what love and shame make of them both.
A romantic melodrama that held the English and American stage for most of the nineteenth century. Download the free EPUB.