&quot;Madame de Treymes&quot; was published in 1907. It was Edith Wharton&rsquo;s first major work after the success of &quot;The House of Mirth&quot; which had been published two years before.&nbsp;<br />The tale features American expatriates living in France, and contrasts new world simplicity and individual freedoms with old world family traditions and manipulation.<br />&quot;Madame de Treymes&quot; is the story of the tactical defeat but moral victory of an honest and upstanding American in his struggle to win a wife from a tightly united but feudally minded French aristocratic family.