A brand new take on the husband-wife-mistress triangle by Françoise Dorin : Having wife and mistress in a balancing act is much more stable than it seems.

The ménage à trois isn't what it used to be. Once upon a time, strict clandestinity was de rigueur when the unfaithful Husband cheated on his spouse. Thus the Wife could save face and maintain her social position. The Mistress either resigned herself to the conjugal shadow cabinet or left. Today, society is witnessing the evolution of relations within the eternal triangle. Gilles' « heart with room for two » is divided between his wife, Paule, discreet enabler of his infidelity, and Victoria, the woman in his life. Passionate and demanding, Victoria is tired of being merely the favourite. Gilles dithers, Victoria fumes, Gilles hesitates. Victoria puts her foot down, and Gilles caves. In extremis, Paule intervenes—and wins ! But wins what? A morose husband who doesn't talk, doesn't go out any more, a husband who is addicted...to Victoria. By an uncommon stroke of luck, Victoria misses Gilles too. Victoria seeks counsel among her close friends, both feminine and masculine, who conclude that Husbands, atavistically bigamous, can blithely live with one woman and love another. Wives retain their high-paying posts as «ombudswomen of the daily » at the wide-reaching Ministry of Good Offices, happy to be relieved in bed by well-advised Mistresses who prefer their temporary employment at the Ministry of Amusement for Two. And so it goes.