By every law of probability Count Abel Larinski of Vienna and Mademoiselle Antoinette Moriaz of Paris should never have met. Chance brings them together in the Swiss mountains, the romantic count wins the young heiress’s heart, and her father and a sceptical friend begin to wonder who the count really is.
An elegant, ironic French novel of love and imposture by a writer much admired in his day. Download the free EPUB.