Claude Frémonde, orphan and billionaire, no longer wishes to be surrounded by suitors who all turn out to be "dowry runners".

Proud and authoritarian, she decides to contact a simulacrum of marriage, buying a husband who will accept to live as she wishes.

Max the Veuzit is the pen name of Alphonsine Zéphirine Vavasseur, born in Petit-Quevilly 29 October 1876 and died in Bois-Colombes 15 April 1952. It is a French language writer, author of numerous romance novels with great success.