Mémoires du comte de Comminge | 
so-so(1735) The young Count of Comminge and his first cousin accidentally fall in love but their fathers hate each other. Complications ensue: declarations of devotion, parental demands, forceful separations and forbidden rendezvous, and buckets and bathtubs of tears. I understand this was wildly popular in its time and influenced early gothic novels, but to this modern reader the melodrama is a lot of very much.
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