Emilie de Fontaine is a spoiled and pround brat. She rejects all suitors her father proposes.
Emilie has incredibly high standards for the man she will marry, and at the top of her unreasonable list of criteria is that he absolutely must be a peer of France. Leaving Paris for the summer, as all good families do, they go to Sceaux.
At the local ball, Emilie falls in love with a charming, beautifully mannered, elegant young man. One of the pieces of Balzacs La Comédie Humaine, this work reflects the narrow-mindedness of the peerage of French society.
The whims and fancies of youthful maidens and young gentlemen and their frivolous attitudes to life are depicted in an interesting manner.
