Used book – *On ne badine pas avec l'amour* (Don't Trifle with Love), Alfred de Musset, Yves Bomati

Published in 1834, On ne badine pas avec l'amour (One Does Not Toy with Love) truly deserves its designation as a "proverb." Fresh from brilliant studies, the young and dashing Perdican returns to his father's home, encounters the coldness of Camille, his cousin, to whom he was destined, and then courts a young peasant girl, which precipitates disaster. The lesson is cruel but undeniable: if youth does not believe in love, it has nothing left to hope for.