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Mme. Loisel marries a minor clerk in the Ministry of Education
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M. Loisel gets an invitation for a party and M. Loisel goes home to share the information with his wife suggesting they should
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Mme. Loisel is very upset because she wants to go to the party but has no nice clothes, so she asks her husband for money to get the dress she wants.
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Mathilde was able to get her dress for the party. The dress cost four hundred francs. Then she realizes that she doesn't have and jewels or gems to wear to the party. Her husband suggested that she should ask Mme. Forestier, her friend, to see if she could borrow a gem or jewel.
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Mathilde goes over to Mme. Forestier house to get a necklace. She goes to Mme. Forestier jewelry box and couldn't find anything that she liked until she saw "a superb diamond necklace" (The Necklace 105) Mme. Loisel asked to borrow the necklace and Mme. Forestier said yes.
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Mme. Loisel goest to the party and she was the prettiest one there. She had such a great time all eyes were on her. She danced all night until 4 o'clock in the morning. M. Loisel was waiting in a small sitting room for her since midnight. They decide to leave.
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They manage to get back home and Mme. Loisel has realized that she has lost the necklace. Her and her husband start searching it for it everywhere but can't find it.
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They look at every jewelry store looking for it everywhere they manage to find a necklace that looks exactly like the one she borrowed. But the problem was the necklace was 34,000 francs. So they had 18,000 of the money covered from M. Loisel inheritance, then they had to ask every one they know for money and they had to get loans.
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They managed to get the necklace and give it back but after they had to move and let go of their maid because they had no money and for the next ten years Mme. Loisel had to suffer with doing all the chores and not getting as much of a allowance. They paid back all the money over the next ten years.
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10 years late Mme. Loisel finds out from Mme. Forestier that the necklace she borrowed was only about five hundred francs because it was only made out of paste.