Beatrix
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L'éducation sentimentale d'un jeune homme, Calyste du Guénic, «magnifique rejeton de la plus vieille race bretonne» (l'action commence à Guérande), et le douloureux vieillissement d'une femme de lettres, Félicité des Touches, qui, après avoir hésité devant un dernier amour, achèvera dans un couvent l'«ardente aridité» de sa vie. George Sand a inspiré le personnage de Félicité. Marie d'Agoult et Liszt ceux de la marquise de Rochefide, «Béatrix», et de son amant, le musicien Conti, qu'elle a autrefois volé à Félicité. Entre ces quatre êtres se joue un drame subtil et dangereux dans lequel Pierre...
Chapters (35)
- BEATRIX
- Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
- NOTE BEATRIX
- ADDENDUM
- NOTE
- BEATRIX
- I. A BRETON TOWN AND MANSION
- II. THE BARON, HIS WIFE, AND SISTER
- III. THREE BRETON SILHOUETTES
- IV. A NORMAL EVENING
- V. CALYSTE
- VI. BIOGRAPHY OF CAMILLE MAUPIN
- VII. LES TOUCHES
- VIII. LA MARQUISE BEATRIX
- IX. A FIRST MEETING
- X. DRAMA
- XI. FEMALE DIPLOMACY
- XII. CORRESPONDENCE
- XIII. DUEL BETWEEN WOMEN
- XIV. AN EXCURSION TO CROISIC
- XV. CONTI
- XVI. SICKNESS UNTO DEATH
- XVII. A DEATH: A MARRIAGE
- XVIII. THE END OF A HONEY-MOON
- Guerande, July, 1838.
- XIX. THE FIRST LIE OF A PIOUS DUCHESS
- XX. A SHORT TREATISE ON CERTAINTY: BUT NOT FROM PASCAL’S POINT OF VIEW
- XXI. THE WICKEDNESS OF A GOOD WOMAN
- XXII. THE NORMAL HISTORY OF AN UPPER-CLASS GRISETTE
- XXIII. ONE OF THE DISEASES OF THE AGE
- XXIV. THE INFLUENCE OF SOCIAL RELATIONS AND POSITION
- XXV. A PRINCE OF BOHEMIA
- XXVI. DISILLUSIONS—IN ALL BUT LA FONTAINE’S FABLES
- ADDENDUM
- The following personages appear in other stories of the Human Comedy.
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