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In court, a wife's plea for divorce reveals a husband whose worship of ideal beauty has become a fevered obsession.
An eighteenth-century grandmother hears modern tales of jealous revenge and gives her sheltered granddaughter a scandalous lesson about love and marriage.
Six years after separating over her affair, a proud baron wakes on a train opposite the wife he barely recognizes.
A nostalgic former clerk recalls the sunny Sunday walk when helping a lost couple led him far from his map and his innocence.
A childless couple’s expected inheritance comes with one condition, turning marital respectability into a desperate financial problem.
On his wedding night, an ardent Norman sportsman must choose between his waiting bride and suspected poachers.
A reluctant officer accepts a respectable woman’s devotion and finds that her passion will not permit an easy retreat.
A rural assize tries two drunken men whose attempt to price a wife by volume turns marriage, commerce, and justice into grotesque comedy.
A landowner recalls forcing his pregnant servant into a marriage arranged to protect his own name.
A newlywed tells his oldest friend that marital passion is ruining his health, then finds an arrangement that restores him.
A suspicious husband takes his wife on a nocturnal hunt, convinced the quarry will expose her betrayal.
A doctor explains how a married woman, a dead lover, and an imminent homecoming demanded instant deception.
A married woman’s secret meetings are repeatedly interrupted by the toddler who sleeps in the next room.
A faithless husband grows jealous when his independent wife attracts attention, and she answers his renewed desire with a price.
A charming idler marries a wealthy Englishwoman and devises a careful scheme to preserve both his allowance and his affairs.
A retired notary asks for a divorce after discovering the ingenious history behind his wife’s advertised fortune.
A confirmed bachelor plans to marry a near stranger because one empty armchair has made solitude unbearable.
An uninformed bride mistakes her wedding night for an attack, then becomes convinced a playful dog bite has doomed her honeymoon.
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 married couple stages an illicit evening together, only for honest questions to become more stimulating than the disguise.
Two tipsy noblewomen trade secrets, and one boasts of turning a servant’s devotion into summer entertainment.
A major turns military discipline on an entire fortified town for the sake of one forbidden meeting with a married woman.
A bachelor’s playful affair takes a nervous turn when a fortune-teller links a beloved black cat to a past romantic disaster.
