Antonia by George Sand audiobook.

Genre: romance

Paris, April 1785: spring lilacs press against the studio window of Julien Thierry, a gifted young painter of flowers whose talent cannot erase a brutal inheritance of debt. Still grieving his celebrated artist father, Julien works side by side with his devoted mother, Madame Thierry, clinging to dignity as money troubles tighten and the world of taste shifts away from his family's once-fashionable art. Just beyond their modest pavilion stands the hotel d'Estrelle, where Julie, Comtesse d'Estrelle, lives in uneasy half-mourning. Barely twenty and already widowed, she discovers that the fortune she was promised is tangled in obligations, and the proud d'Estrelle family offers her little more than cold protection for their name. As solicitors bargain, friends advise, and reputation becomes currency, Julie confronts the cost of the choices forced on women of her rank, while Julien faces the perilous distance between an artist's heart and aristocratic society. When Julien and the countess are drawn into one another's orbit, Sand weaves a tense, intimate tale of love tested by class, honor, and the looming pressure of ruin, in a city glittering on the eve of upheaval.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:17:59) Chapter 02

(00:32:37) Chapter 03

(00:46:20) Chapter 04

(00:59:14) Chapter 05

(01:12:10) Chapter 06

(01:28:53) Chapter 07

(01:42:55) Chapter 08

(01:57:30) Chapter 09

(02:14:41) Chapter 10

(02:30:10) Chapter 11

(02:43:03) Chapter 12

(02:55:55) Chapter 13

(03:09:44) Chapter 14

(03:26:13) Chapter 15

(03:37:39) Chapter 16

(03:52:41) Chapter 17

(04:13:41) Chapter 18

(04:27:45) Chapter 19

(04:38:19) Chapter 20

(04:52:21) Chapter 21

(05:10:37) Chapter 22

(05:24:18) Chapter 23

(05:39:54) Chapter 24

(05:53:00) Chapter 25

(06:08:23) Chapter 26

(06:25:09) Chapter 27

(06:45:11) Chapter 28

(07:05:58) Chapter 29

(07:25:01) Chapter 30

(07:41:07) Chapter 31

(07:54:58) Chapter 32

(08:07:24) Chapter 33

(08:25:26) Chapter 34

(08:42:05) Chapter 35

(08:59:23) Chapter 36

(09:17:54) Chapter 37

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