Set in prerevolutionary France, The Story of Ernestine tells of the
love between an innocent young woman and an aristocrat.
Ernestine, German-born and orphaned, is an apprentice painter
putting the finishing touches on a portrait when the marquis de
Clemengis, elegant and handsome, enters the studio. Recognizing him
as the subject of the portrait, she gestures for him to be seated
and goes on working, looking back and forth between him and his
likeness. The world-weary aristocrat is smitten.
In graceful, understated prose, Marie Riccoboni shows how her
heroine learns to negotiate questions of honor and appearances and
to find a precarious balance between economic security and the
potentially compromising nature of male generosity. The story
raises questions about sexual enlightenment and social prejudice
and reexamines the links of money, reputation, and marriageability
that preoccupied eighteenth-century writers.
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