Publisher's Synopsis
"[...]beautiful and charming. One of them was an actress-Mademoiselle Adrienne Lecouvreur, and the other one was Mademoiselle Francezka Capello-that star-like creature whose beauty, whose riches, whose airy high spirit, whose strange, brilliant story, laid her open to peculiar dangers. Yet, toward Mademoiselle Capello, Count Saxe behaved with the most delicate chivalry during the whole of her eventful life. And he forwarded the love of Mademoiselle Capello and Gaston Cheverny with the noblest disinterestedness. Count Saxe had a taste not common among soldiers. He liked to hear sermons read-good sermons, that[...]."
