The New International Encyclopædia/Maître de Forges, Le

MAÎTRE DE FORGES, de fôrzh, Le (The Iron-Founder). A romance, by Georges Ohnet (1882). The heroine, Claire de Beaulieu, loves her cousin, who marries another when Claire’s fortune is suddenly lost without her knowledge. In pique she marries Derblay, but makes no effort to conceal her repugnance for him. He endures the false situation until his duel with his wife’s cousin reveals the delicacy of his conduct and earns her love. This mediocre romance had a phenomenal success in many translations as well as in the original. It was dramatized by the author and presented at the Gymnase in 1883.