Theatre Season in Pau - The Princess of Clèves

1 Rue Saint-Louis, Théâtre Saint-Louis

Forewarned by her mother at an early age about “the little sincerity of men” and the dangers of love, Mlle de Chartres, sixteen, keeps her head cool in the face of the homage her beauty arouses. She knows that “the greatest happiness of a woman is to love her husband and to be loved by him,” and she waits for a suitor to present himself. Two brilliant marriage schemes, designed by Mme de Chartres, fail; the young girl must content herself with marrying a gentleman full of wisdom and merit, M. de Clèves, whose respectful passion and constancy have touched her virtue. She has to …