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Fromont and Risler — Volume 1

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A self-made businessman achieves social and financial success and celebrates a seemingly happy marriage, only to see his household undermined by his wife's vanity and an illicit liaison with an actor. As extravagance and deceit spread, his devotion and efforts to protect his family prove increasingly futile, producing moral and material decline that culminates in personal tragedy. The narrative alternates intimate domestic scenes with bustling Parisian settings and a cast of secondary characters whose varying ambitions and weaknesses illuminate contrasts between genuine feeling and social pretension.

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Affectation of indifference
Always smiling condescendingly
Convent of Saint Joseph, four shoes under the bed!
Deeming every sort of occupation beneath him
Dreams of wealth and the disasters that immediately followed
He fixed the time mentally when he would speak
Little feathers fluttering for an opportunity to fly away
No one has ever been able to find out what her thoughts were
Pass half the day in procuring two cakes, worth three sous
She was of those who disdain no compliment
Such artificial enjoyment, such idiotic laughter
Superiority of the man who does nothing over the man who works
Terrible revenge she would take hereafter for her sufferings
The groom isn't handsome, but the bride's as pretty as a picture
The poor must pay for all their enjoyments