![]() ![]() She and her husband spend the next ten years struggling to pay for an expensive replacement, and Mathilde’s beauty fades as she experiences the hardships of poverty. Mathilde is a huge success at the ball but disaster strikes when she loses the necklace during the carriage ride home. Mathilde finally has a chance to live her dreams when she and her husband receive an invitation to a party from the Minister of Education, and she borrows a diamond necklace from her friend Jeanne Forestier in order to look her best at the party. A remarkably beautiful woman, Mathilde is perpetually dissatisfied with her lot in life, constantly dreaming of the glamour and riches to which she feels her beauty entitles her. Mathilde Loisel is the daughter of a middle-class family and is married to M. ![]()
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