Le péché de Monsieur Antoine, Tome 2

by George Sand

"Le péché de Monsieur Antoine, Tome 2" by George Sand is a novel published in 1845 as a newspaper serial. This social novel follows Émile, a progressive young man who falls in love with Gilberte, daughter of the impoverished nobleman Monsieur Antoine. The couple faces fierce opposition from Émile's authoritarian father, a factory owner. With support from a worker and an eccentric marquis who bequeaths them his fortune, they dream of founding an agrarian community and achieving social progress in nineteenth-century France.