Ferragus: Chief Of The Dévorants

This novel is set around the year 1820. Auguste de Maulincour, a young cavalry officer, walking in a Parisian district of ill repute, sees from afar a young married woman, Clemence, with whom he is secretly in love. He sees her enter a house of ill repute. The young married woman is widely recognized in Parisian society as a paragon of marital virtue-what is her secret? Auguste decides to spy on the woman to find out. He finds her in the company of a man named Ferragus. In the days that follow, Auguste uncovers the secrets of powerful and mysterious people and escapes several assassination attempts. Subsequently, Auguste is killed, but before he dies, he reveals Clemence's secret to her husband, Jules Desmarets, a very rich stockbroker. Ferragus is none other than Clemence's father.

• • Author: Honoré de Balzac, Katharine Prescott Wormeley
• • Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• • Publication Date: Apr 03, 2017
• • Number of Pages: 120 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1545105464
• • ISBN-13: 9781545105467