In the short story "A Wedding Gift" written by Guy de Maupassant, Jacques had a sweetheart by the name of Ravet. On the night that he married his new love by the name of Berthe, a physician sent a letter to him saying that Ravet was about to die due to giving birth to a child who she claimed to be his. The motive of the sweetheart is to get Jacques to care for their child as she died the following day.
