This instructive story took place in 19th-century France. Someone might find it strange that the narrator speaks so harshly about women, but sometimes they deserve it. You have to be too young for others to open your eyes to women. You have to be very open-hearted for a woman to be able to cause huge devastation in your heart. And you have to experience a deep disappointment to die of longing and shame.
And although the narrator wishes only one thing for everyone involved in the events—executioners, victims, and even passive observers alike—forgetting, you, reader, will remember this piercing love story for a long time.