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In , Charles returns to France. He has become very wealthy through his trading, but he has also become extremely corrupt.
He becomes engaged to the daughter of an impoverished aristocratic family, in order to make himself respectable. He also sends a cheque to pay off the money that she gave him. She sends back the cabinet. Cruchot des Bonfons carries out the debt payment in full.
This comes just in time for Charles to find that his future father-in-law objects to letting his daughter marry the son of a bankrupt. During his brief stay at Saumur, he had assumed from the state of their home that his relatives were poor. At the end of the novel, although by the standards of the time she should be unhappy — childless and widowed — she is instead quite content with her lot. She has learned to live life on her own terms, and has learned of the hypocrisy and shallowness of the bourgeois, and that her best friends will come from the lower classes. Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky began his career by translating the novel into Russian, in From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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