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With his wife dead and three young children to raise ploughman Germaine decides that the time has come to marry again He embarks on a journey to meet a rich widow Catherine Leonard in a match that has been approved by his fatherinlaw however he finds her proud and vain and surrounded by other suitors Germaine prefers the company of Marie a young shepherdess from his own village but she is insistent that she wants a younger more suitable husbandInfluential French author George Sand180476 is best known for two groups of novels a series of romantic tales and a collection of countrylife idylls