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love with Clélia Conti, the daughter of the citadel's governor. He continues his affair with her after she
marries, and he becomes a high-ranking ecclesiastic and an admired preacher. The death of their child
and then of Clélia herself causes Fabrice to retire to the Carthusian monastery, or charterhouse, of
Parma, where he dies.
The incongruous yet always harmonious combination of lyricism and high comedy, of realism and
dreamlike atmosphere, of The Charterhouse of Parma allows the author to caricaturize the petty
tyranny of post-Napoleonic Europe, to question public morality, and to assert the prerogatives of
love's follies. There are subtly drawn portraits of the naive and idealistic young Fabrice del Dongo
(notably at the Battle of Waterloo); of his courageous and passionate aunt, the Duchess de
Sanseverina; of her lover, the benevolent Machiavellian statesman Count Mosca; and of the young and
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