Madame De... plot
"It was her vanity that destroyed her."
In Paris in the late 1800s, the wife of a wealthy general, Baroness Louise, sells the earrings her husband had given her on her wedding day to pay off her gambling debts. Her husband is not allowed to know about this so she pretends she has lost the earrings. When her husband finds out, it is the start of all kinds of intrigue.