Sandrine Bessancort presents the revised and female-led 2025 tribute to the late Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893), "Useless Beauty Revisited".

Read on, as a Parisian Comtesse and wife of the aristocracy takes a fitting revenge upon the blue-blood husband who has treated her as little more than a brood-mare during their marriage.

This while he enjoys a succession of dancing-girls and other available wives.

That fitting revenge coming when, far from her feminine appeal lessening with age, the allure of the Comtesse seems to become more powerful and ensures the passions of the jaded Comte are once again excited by the wife he has so cruelly ignored.

Passions the wife takes great pleasure in thwarting and ignoring ? not to mention taking lovers of her own ? and, in the process, making the Comte yearn for ever even more.

The marriage that has been entirely one-sided is about to have a new leader at its helm!

Retro fantasy and female-led fiction for those readers who prefer to use the darker sides of their imaginations with the help of character-driven plotlines.

Ms Bessancort is a legal professional working out of Honfleur and is the author of "The Servant Revisited" and "Ancient Sorceries Revisited"; along with a number of other re-imagined and female-led stories of classic provenance.