Beatrix. Honore de Balzac

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       Honoré de Balzac

      Beatrix

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664599681

       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.

       Table of Contents

      It is somewhat remarkable that Balzac, dealing as he did with

       traits of character and the minute and daily circumstances of

       life, has never been accused of representing actual persons in the

       two or three thousand portraits which he painted of human nature.

       In “The Great Man of the Provinces in Paris” some likenesses were

       imagined: Jules Janin in Etienne Lousteau, Armand Carrel in Michel

       Chrestien, and, possibly, Berryer in Daniel d’Arthez. But in the

       present volume, “Beatrix,” he used the characteristics of certain

       persons, which were recognized and admitted at the time of

       publication. Mademoiselle des Touches (Camille Maupin) is George

       Sand in character, and the personal description of her, though

       applied by some to the famous Mademoiselle Georges, is easily

       recognized from Couture’s drawing. Beatrix, Conti, and Claude

       Vignon are sketches of the Comtesse d’Agoult, Liszt, and the

       well-known critic Gustave Planche.

       The opening scene of this volume, representing the manners and

       customs of the old Breton family, a social state existing no

       longer except in history, and the transition period of the

       vieille roche as it passed into the customs and ideas of the present century,

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