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Waterloo, the Austrian occupation of Milan), and an imaginative, almost dreamlike transposition of
contemporary reality into fictional terms. The novel is set mainly in the court of Parma, Italy, in the
early 19th century. Fabrice del Dongo, a young aristocrat and ardent admirer of Napoleon, goes to
Paris to join the French army and is present at the Battle of Waterloo. He returns thereafter to Parma
and enters the church for worldly advantage under the sponsorship of his aunt, the Duchess de
Sanseverina, who is the mistress of the chief minister of Parma, Count Mosca. Following an affair
with an actress, Fabrice kills a rival, is imprisoned, escapes, and is pardoned. In prison Fabrice falls in
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
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