
Claudine, now 17, moves to Paris and embraces sensuality, braced by the encouragement of her sex-driven maid and by her dominance of a former lover, the girl Luce. She attempts to seduce her gay male cousin before falling in love with the boy's father, Renaud.
The second book of the Claudine series. Preceded by Claudine à l’école (1900) and followed by Claudine en ménage (1902).