A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieutenant Maréchal, grapple with their own class ...

Professor Henri Faust, retiring after 50 years as an alchemist in a circa-1700 university, despairs at still knowing nothing of the true secrets ...

A shallow, provincial wife finds her relationship with her preoccupied husband strained by romantic notions of love, leading her further towards ...