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Mon, Mar 16, 2009
During the French Restoration, Docteur Crosnier, a Paris physician, settles down in the small town of Valognes. For his leisure time, he enrolls in the fencing course given by fencing master Benoît Stassin and his daughter Claire. While crossing swords with the beautiful but domineering young woman, Crosnier is called to the local manor where Countess de Savigny is in the process of a difficult delivery. Crosnier saves the mother but the baby is already dead when he arrives. Following this painful experience, Count Charles de Savigny, Delphine's loving husband, makes friends with him and follows him to the fencing-room. He does not know yet that Claire and him will become diabolical lovers...
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Mon, Mar 23, 2009
The scene takes place in Paris during the First French Empire. "La Maison du chat qui pelote" is a haberdashery managed with due diligence by Monsieur Guillaume, helped by his faithful assistant Joseph Lebas. Monsieur Guillaume and his wife have two marriageable daughters, Virginie, the elder, a sweet and sensible woman, and Augustine, who has more charms than her. Unsurprisingly Virginie has difficulty finding a suitor. As for Augustine, she has two lovers, Joseph on the one hand and Théodore de Sommervieux, a young aristocrat and artist, on the other. Monsieur Guillaume refuses to give Augustine to Joseph as he wants him to marry Virginie, which the assistant clerk reluctantly accepts. On the other hand, Guillaume ends up giving his blessing to Théodore and Augustine as. A love match vs. a forced marriage: Augustine seems bound for happiness and Virginie for a dreary life. But destiny has surprises in store.