Women in the Life of Balzac
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About This Book
Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) was a nineteenth-century French novelist and playwright. His Magnum Opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Comédie Humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the fall of Napoléon Bonaparte in 1815. Due to his keen observation of detail and unfiltered representation of society, Balzac is regarded as one of the founders of realism in European literature. He is renowned for his multi-faceted characters; even his lesser characters are complex, morally ambiguous and fully human. Inanimate objects are imbued ...
Chapters (29)
- WOMEN IN THE LIFE OF BALZAC
- TO
- PREPARER'S NOTE
- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION
- AUTHOR'S NOTE
- WOMEN IN THE LIFE OF BALZAC
- CHAPTER I
- CHAPTER II
- BALZAC'S MOTHER
- MADAME SURVILLE—MADAME MALLET—MADAME DUHAMEL
- MADAME SALLAMBIER—MADAME DE MONTZAIGLE—MADAME DE BRUGNOLLE— MADAME DELANNOY—MADAME DE POMMEREUL—MADAME DE MARGONNE
- MADAME CARRAUD—MADAME NIVET
- CHAPTER III
- MADAME GAY—MADAME HAMELIN—MADAME DE GIRARDIN—MADAME DESBORDES-VALMORE—MADAME DORVAL
- LA DUCHESSE D'ABRANTES
- LA PRINCESSE BELGIOJOSO.—MADAME MARBOUTY.— LA COMTESSE D'AGOULT.—GEORGE SAND.
- CHAPTER IV
- MADAME BECHET—MADAME WERDET
- MADAME ROSSINI—MADAME RECAMIER—LA DUCHESSE DE DINO—LA COMTESSE APPONY—MADAME DE BERNARD—MADAME DAVID—LA BARONNE GERARD
- LA COMTESSE VISCONTI—MADAME DE VALETTE—MADEMOISELLE KOZLOWSKA
- LA COMTESSE TURHEIM—LA COMTESSE DE BOCARME—LA COMTESSE MERLIN —LA PRINCESSE GALITZIN DE GENTHOL—LA BARONNE DE ROTHSCHILD— LA COMTESSE MAFFEI—LA COMTESSE SERAFINA SAN-SERVERINO— LA COMTESSE BOLOGNINI
- LA PRINCESSE BAGRATION—LA COMTESSE BOSSI—MADAME KISSELEFF— LA PRINCESSE DE SCHONBURG—MADAME JAROSLAS POTOCKA— LA BARONNE DE PFAFFINS—LA COMTESSE DELPHINE POTOCKA
- MARIA—HELENE—LOUISE
- CHAPTER V
- MADAME DE BERNY
- LA DUCHESSE DE CASTRIES.—MADEMOISELLE DE TRUMILLY
- MADAME HANSKA.—LA COMTESSE MNISZECH.—MADEMOISELLE BOREL.— MESDEMOISELLES WYLEZYNSKA.—LA COMTESSE ROSALIE RZEWUSKA.— MADEMOISELLE CALISTE RZEWUSKA.—MADAME CHERKOWITSCH.— MADAME RIZNITSCH.—LA COMTESSE MARIE POTOCKA.
- CONCLUSION
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