Yvette

Complete and unabridged, with 57 full-page plates by Édouard Manet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Gustave Caillebotte. A young man pursues Yvette, the beautiful daughter of a Marquise whose salon is not quite what it appears — and discovers, slightly before she does, exactly what her mother is and what that makes her. Flaubert was Maupassant's mother's friend and made him rewrite for seven years befor...