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A young Norman soldier asks his parents to judge the Black woman he hopes to marry on her character rather than her skin.
Two lovers exchange letters over whether physical desire corrupts love or completes it.
A man who believes himself untouched by age meets the woman he once adored and sees twelve lost years all at once.
A solitary walker falls in love with a seaside house—and with the unknown woman whose photograph hangs inside.
When distant Corsica appears across the evening sea, an old traveler recalls a noblewoman who gave up society for lasting love.
A severe priest sets out to confront his niece’s secret lover, but the moonlit countryside challenges his certainty.
Spring fever draws a young man toward a stranger on the Seine, until another passenger offers an urgent warning about love.
An aging Parisian couple's return to the woods of their courtship ends with an embarrassed appearance before the village mayor.
A confirmed skeptic of love recalls the moonlit boat ride that briefly unsettled all his carefully reasoned certainty.
A hunter in a frozen marsh witnesses a wild bird's devotion and finds his sport transformed by the sight.
A major turns military discipline on an entire fortified town for the sake of one forbidden meeting with a married woman.
At a Twelfth Night dinner, a guest asks how the household’s quiet companion came to live there and what her place has cost her.
A Norman farmer’s sudden passion survives rejection until an unexpected crisis puts old loyalties to the test.
A bachelor’s playful affair takes a nervous turn when a fortune-teller links a beloved black cat to a past romantic disaster.
A young wife returns from Switzerland with a confession about one moonlit night beside Lake Lucerne.
A frightened countess helps a wounded stranger cross a border, beginning a wordless bond neither dares disturb.
An aging bachelor revisits the one love he never declared and asks the question that could make his quiet life seem wasted.
A lifelong sportsman considers marriage at fifty, then travels to Paris to test whether neglect has left him unfit for it.
On a nighttime walk through Paris, a convivial dinner guest argues that no friendship or love can breach the solitude of the mind.
Letters hidden inside an old chasuble reveal a bedridden woman’s intimate meditation on the object that holds birth, love, illness, and death.
An exile has built a fortune around one plan: return to the woman whose love ruined him.
An experienced aunt advises her unhappy niece on the fine art of giving a kiss without wearing out its power.
A shaved moustache sends a society woman from bedroom complaint to a memory of recognizing French soldiers among the dead.
A surgeon’s false tale about a stolen saint’s relic impresses his devout fiancée—until she visits Cologne herself.
