A Daughter of Eve

The story follows two sisters, Marie-Angélique and Marie-Eugénie de Granville, raised under strict maternal and religious discipline whose marriages propel them into opposing social worlds: one allied to Ferdinand du Tillet, an ambitious banker, the other to Comte Félix de Vandenesse. Intimate scenes and family confidences reveal how ambition, pride, romantic longing, and loyalty shape choices and relationships. The plot moves through courtship, passionate attachments, moral dilemmas and a suicidal crisis, ending in marital and social reckonings that expose personal costs of social advancement while depicting manners, domestic detail, and the tensions between private affection and public ambition.