Ophelle's wedding (Ophelle, Le Prieur, An VII) - Bovinet after Binet

Ophelle is a young girl abandoned at an early age to the care of her jealous stepmother, Madame de Pelverde. To satisfy her personal ambition, the latter wanted to marry off her stepdaughter to a rich old financier, M. de Panor, while she hoped to marry Ophelle's friend, the Count d'Eloncour. Noting Ophelle's refusals and her rapprochement with the Count, Pelverde's jealousy seconds her ambition: she takes her to M. de Panor's frightening castle. As soon as she arrives, Ophelle is taken to a chapel, where she must sign documents that in effect formalize her marriage to the old financier, without her knowledge. When a priest takes her hand and joins it with that of her repulsive suitor, she realizes too late the deception and tries to escape. Her stepmother then shows her a forged letter from her deceased father, in which he orders her to accept the marriage on pain of being disowned and locked up in a convent.