Theatre Season in Pau - The Princess of Clèves

1 Rue Saint-Louis, Théâtre Saint-Louis

Early warning from his mother about “the little sincerity of men” and the dangers of love, Mlle de Chartres, aged sixteen, keeps a cool head in the face of the tributes her beauty attracts. 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 appear. Two brilliant marriage schemes designed by Mme de Chartres fail; the young girl must content herself with marrying a nobleman full of wisdom and merit, M. de Clèves, whose respectful passion and constancy have touched her virtue. She has for …