"Le péché de Monsieur Antoine, Tome 1" by George Sand is a novel published in 1845. Émile, a progressive young man concerned with social justice, falls in love with Gilberte, daughter of the ruined nobleman Monsieur Antoine. Their union faces opposition from Émile's authoritarian father, a factory owner. With support from a worker and an eccentric marquis who bequeaths his fortune to establish an agrarian community, the young couple fights to marry and implement their ideals of social progress in nineteenth-century France. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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