Both Claire and her husband, M. d'Albe, are virtuous and
upstanding, and Fr$ed$eric, her husband's nineteen-year-old adopted
son and factory assistant, is honest and noble-hearted. But in the
beautiful and secluded Loire Valley, the friendship between Claire
and Fr$ed$eric gradually develops into a forbidden passion. Claire
d'Albe (1799) was audacious in its day for its representation of
adulterous love as a positive act of self-fulfillment. As the
volume editor, Margaret Cohen, indicates, Sophie Cottin's
best-selling work of sentimentalism highlights the tension in
Enlightenment liberalism between collective welfare and personal
happiness. Although such later French authors as Stendhal and
Balzac denigrated sentimentalism along with female novelists,
Claire d'Albe influenced their realist aesthetics.
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