When Georges Duroy wanders into the capital without a penny in his pocket, he meets a former regimental comrade, who suggests he becomes a journalist at La Vie française ... Thus begins Bel-Ami, the story of a ambition satiated through money and women in the ostentatious Paris of the 1880s. Cynicism of a booming press, political corruption, love affairs and worldly vanities: this ruthless dive into the Parisian society of the end of the 19th century makes Bel-Ami, the most Balzacian novel by Maupassant.