Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley

Contents

NOTE

I. A BRETON TOWN AND MANSION

II. THE BARON, HIS WIFE, AND SISTER

III. THREE BRETON SILHOUETTES

IV. A NORMAL EVENING

V. CALYSTE

VI. BIOGRAPHY OF CAMILLE MAUPIN

VII. LES TOUCHES

VIII. LA MARQUISE BEATRIX

IX. A FIRST MEETING

X. DRAMA

XI. FEMALE DIPLOMACY

XII. CORRESPONDENCE

XIII. DUEL BETWEEN WOMEN

XIV. AN EXCURSION TO CROISIC

XV. CONTI

XVI. SICKNESS UNTO DEATH

XVII. A DEATH: A MARRIAGE

XVIII. THE END OF A HONEY-MOON

XIX. THE FIRST LIE OF A PIOUS DUCHESS

XX. A SHORT TREATISE ON CERTAINTY: BUT NOT FROM PASCAL'S POINT OF VIEW

XXI. THE WICKEDNESS OF A GOOD WOMAN

XXII. THE NORMAL HISTORY OF AN UPPER-CLASS GRISETTE

XXIII. ONE OF THE DISEASES OF THE AGE

XXIV. THE INFLUENCE OF SOCIAL RELATIONS AND POSITION

XXV. A PRINCE OF BOHEMIA

XXVI. DISILLUSIONS—IN ALL BUT LA FONTAINE'S FABLES

ADDENDUM