The classics of French literature adapted to a non francophone public !Baron and baroness Le Perthuis des Vauds's daughter, Jeanne, has everything she needs to be happy when she leaves the convent : she is young, pretty, rich and have a happy life at the castle "le château des Peuples". A couple of months later, she marries the man she thinks she loves, the viscount Julien de Lamare. However, from that moment, humiliations, dîsappointments and tragedies will mark her life...A life that looks like a lot of women's ones in the 19th century.