- We don't get married for her pleasure!" decreed Véronique, the governess of the young Aélys, in a severe tone. Aélys de Croix-Givre has just learned that her father, before he died, had intended her for Prince Lothaire. She frightenedly rejected the idea of uniting with the descendant of the Waldsteins, who, always, were "as cruel and terrible as the worst wild animals". The prince is superb, haughty, satanic. Didn't he take pleasure, as a teenager, in having his servants whipped? Defeat...

A man of your rank should never consider that his good pleasure... "Prince Wladimir was told. Besides, it's beautiful. So seductive despite his morgue and contempt for women! One of them, however, a modestly dressed girl, met in a forest, dared to brave the prince when he threatened his dog: "No! Don't kill him! He fought back," she shouts. Wladimir is amazed. But she is bewitching in the brilliance of her blonde hair and her indignation! Who is it? Who is it? Her name is Lilia Verin. She ...

Overnight, the sweet and sensitive Anita was forced to live in the honourable Handen house. And, for her, the misfortune has begun.... The Handen, Anita's distant relatives, have a dry heart. Kneaded with pride, they subjected the young orphan girl to the worst humiliations, which they despise: if her father was a Handen, her mother was a poor Spanish woman who sang for a living. To add to her suffering, Anita falls in love with Ary, the eldest son of the Handens, a wonderful artist, elega...

Beautiful, rich, noble, and already famous at the age of thirty for his talent as a writer, Elie de Ghiliac is adorned with all the prestige. Widowed after an unfortunate union, this time he wants to make a marriage of reason. In the young Valderez de Noctare, he believes he has found the piously erased wife who will remain at home. But is the lovely Valderez made to be just a housewife? Will she be able to win the heart of her overly attractive husband?

In order to escape Varouze's criminal family who oppressed her, Ourida managed to escape... She takes refuge with her only support: Prince Salvatore Farnerra. The conquests of this rich and brilliant aristocrat are countless! The pretty, tender Ourida moves her, seduces her for so long. Soon even the wife.... Often he likes to show his young wife a wild admiration: - Nothing is more beautiful than your eyes of Saracen, my beloved... he said to her one evening, in the shadow of their park i...

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An intimate drama, which takes place sometimes in the society mixed with lounges where one is not bored, sometimes in the moving environment of a Pyrenean ambulance or among the somewhat enclosed lives of the province. Miss Elys de Valromée, whom, despite her eighteenth birthday, is called Madame la Chanoinesse, did not take a vow of celibacy when she entered the Sainte-Edwige chapter, but convinced herself that she would never get married. Is she not mistaken?

To avenge yourself the injustices you witness every day, to claim the right to judge and punish those who are guilty of these injustices, this is the goal that Don Miguel, nicknamed the King of the Andes, has set himself. No one can weaken his decisions or ease his rigours... until the day he sees Ines again, who is participating in a dangerous expedition to Peru where she risks her life. Will love change the character of this hard, cruel, ruthless man? However, Ines wondered if her happin...

An inexpressible emotion could be read on the king's face. Her gaze enveloped the young girl so pale, visibly weakened by many material deprivations and moral sufferings, but still retaining her delicate beauty, her patrician grace, and above all the incomparable charm, the admirable radiance of her gaze. "Why didn't you tell me?..." he murmured. The first duty of a sovereign is to help his subjects in embarrassment.... I'll talk to my mother about you, she'll come to you and you'll confid...

Wennael was thinking of Annonciade's love, of her radiant beauty. A intoxication invaded her. But she was mixing with an embarrassing and unknown feeling that looked like remorse..." By play, the superb and whimsical Marquis Wennaël de Pennelon has fun disturbing Annonciade. The naive and pure Annunciation that derives its inimitable grace from Greek ancestry.... Will she succeed in chaining this fickle heart? Wennael soon returned to his brilliant and shallow life, leaving the girl deeply...

"Aren't you going to tell me I'm the daughter of a king, Wennael? "The proud Duke of Rochelyse with his wild sloes smiles without answering the sweet Berengère, his fiancée. Bérengère, a foundling child, attracted the implacable hatred of Catherine de Médicis, Queen of France. For what reason? The girl ignores it. The Duke, on the other hand, knows the secret of Berengère's birth. When she's his wife, he'll know how to protect her. He decided to marry her without delay in his castle of Mén...

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