The scion of an ancient noble family, the Marquis Anselm de Thiol has neither intelligence nor beauty. He is already twenty-seven years old, and the young man feels the need to get married. The trouble is that he doesn’t know exactly what it is - and his knowledge about women is extremely poor. His venerable mentor, Nazon Paraklet, decides to help the marquis. But the old man had never been married either, and in addition he was obsessed with Latin. Nevertheless, he is determined to marry the noble student...Jules Verne completed the creation of this story in 1854, but the reader became acquainted with it only 130 years later.