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Le Médecin des Dames de Néans

by René Boylesve

"Le Médecin des Dames de Néans" by René Boylesve is a novel published in 1896. In a sleepy French provincial town, the doctor observes the bourgeois women suffering from mysterious languor and devises an unconventional cure: orchestrating an affair for the listless wife of a notary. What begins as a prescribed romance evolves into jealousy, passion, and tragedy as multiple characters become entangled in forbidden desires, challenging the town's conservative morality with unexpected consequences.

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