安东奈特.德.纳瓦兰出生于一个贵族世家,在家人的安排下,她成为了德朗热公爵夫人,然而这是一段利于两个家族政治权贵的毫无爱情的婚姻,当她遇到自己的真爱而无法得到的时候,她成为了一名修女并最终结束了自己的生命。巴尔扎克在本书中体现了自己的女权主义思想,反对专制婚姻,提倡爱情,批判旧贵族的腐朽,自私,固步自封,提倡女性的解放和自由…… Antoinette de Navalan was born in a noble family and under the family arrangements she became Madlon Duchess, yet this is a loveless marriage that favors the political empire of both families, When she met her true love and could not get it, she became a nuns and eventually ended her own life. Balzac reflects his feminist ideas in this book, opposes autocratic marriage, advocates love, criticizes the decadent, selfish and self-defeating old aristocrats and promotes women’s liberation and freedom.