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The beguiling woman born in a family of clerks gets married to Monsieur Loisel, a clerk in the Ministry of Education.
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Madame and Monsieur Loisel get invited to a reception at the Ministerial Mansion
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Mme. Loisel persuades her husband to give her four hundred francs to buy a new dress for the reception. Then, she goes over to her best friend's house Mme. Forestier and borrows a necklace that looks like an expensive diamond necklace.
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Mme. Loisel and M. Loisel attend the reception. Mme. Loisel looks the best out of everyone in her new dress and borrowed necklace.
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After M. and Mme. Loisel arrive home Mme. Loisl realizes that she had lost the necklace and they can't find it.
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Mme. and M. Loisel go to a jewelry store and buy a brand new diamond necklace that cost's eighteen thousand francs. Then mme. Loisel gives her friend the diamond necklace.
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Mme. Loisel starts to work as a maid to pay off the diamond necklace. She starts to become old and worn.
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After finishing paying off the necklace Mme. Loisel runs into her old best friend and she tells her that the necklace wasn't a real diamond necklace and it only was worth like five hundred francs.