New audiobook: The Dowry, Guy de Maupassant

Provincial France and Paris at the end of the nineteenth century. Young Jeanne Cordier marries the notary Simon Lebrument, hoping for a secure and peaceful life. A journey to the capital casts their marriage, mutual trust, and financial expectations in an unexpected light. The story examines the place of money in family relationships and shows how easily hopes of love and domestic happiness can be shaken when sincerity gives way to calculation.