Bel-Ami

Georges Duroy, a handsome former soldier back from Algeria, walks the streets of Paris without a penny in his pocket. A chance meeting gets him a job at a newspaper, La Vie Française, and he soon learns that his charm opens more doors than his talent. From one woman to the next, he climbs Parisian society, politics and the press, without scruples and without looking back. Maupassant's novel of ambition, in the Paris of the 1880s.