Description
Warned early on by her mother about “the insincerity of men” and the dangers of love, Mlle de Chartres, at the age of sixteen, keeps a cool head in the face of the admiration her beauty attracts. She knows that %AB a woman’s greatest happiness is to love her husband and to be loved by him %BB, and waits for a suitor to come forward. Two brilliant marriage plans, devised by Mme de Chartres, fail; the young woman must content herself with marrying a gentleman full of wisdom and merit, M. de Clèves, whose respectful passion and constancy have touched her virtue. She has nothing but esteem for him and is content with that [?] But shortly thereafter, her encounter with the Duke of Nemours throws her peaceful existence into turmoil?.
