The most beautiful love stories are those that inspire regrets

Under the July Monarchy, Clementine, a rich heiress, married Prince Adam, a Polish exile. Rich, young, in love, the couple live in a mansion richly endowed. Lives with them Thaddeus, another Polish aristocrat who devoted his life to the happiness of Adam, who saved his life in the war. After peer to employee, the skittish Thaddeus acts as steward and advise the young couple. When he falls for the young Clementine and finds that this feeling is starting to be shared, he decided to invent a false mistress, circus dancer, so that the Clementine looks as unworthy of her and choking her budding love . the trap work too well as she begins to despise ...
Beautiful new (1842) scenes of privacy. We know that Balzac adored these stories "sublime" sacrificial love as the maneuvers, tricks and deceptions made by lovers and inevitably called to turn against them. The new unfolds a lively pace, offers two twists (including a brilliant conclusion) well brought with developments on the relative merits of love and friendship we have read most brilliantly conducted in other works but remain here for good level. Balzac succeeds in sixty pages to capture a beautiful couple ultimately very Racine lovers. Since the moral of the story can be summarized to "Invitus invitam dimisit".