In Gilded Age Paris, society climber Marguerite Steinheil broke every rule in the bourgeois book—and got away with it. Stuck in a disappointing marriage with a failing painter but determined to rise to the top, Meg rose to infamy when one of her extramarital lovers, France’s President Félix Faure, died of a stroke during one of their heated rendezvous. But, Meg had higher ambitions than becoming one of the most sought-after mistresses in Paris. At her core, she was a woman determined to conquer high society, no matter what the cost.