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- The Unknown Masterpiece. The Unknown Masterpiece is a short story first published in the newspaper L'Artiste in August 1831. The story is a reflection on art and has had an important influence on modernist artists.
- El Verdugo. El Verdugo is a short story published in 1829 and set in the coastal town of Menda (Spain) during the Peninsular War. The officer Victor Marchand is in command of the occupying French garrison, who in turn is in love with Clara, the daughter of the local grandee, the Marquis Léganès.
- Gobseck. Gobseck is a novel whose main theme is greed. It first appeared in outline form in La Mode in March 1830 under the title l'Usurier (The Usurer), and then in novel form in a volume published by Mame-Delaunay under the title Les Dangers de l'inconduite.
- Louis Lambert. Louis Lambert is a novel written during the summer of 1832. It focuses on the life and metaphysical ideas of the child genius Louis Lambert, who was fascinated by the Swedish philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg.
- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION
- AUTHOR'S NOTE
- CHAPTER I. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF BALZAC
- MADAME SURVILLE−−MADAME MALLET−−MADAME DUHAMEL
- MADAME SALLAMBIER−−MADAME DE MONTZAIGLE−−MADAME DE BRUGNOLLE−− MADAME DELANNOY−−MADAME DE POMMEREUL−−MADAME DE MARGONNE
- "To Madame Josephine Delannoy, nee Doumerg.
- MADAME CARRAUD−−MADAME NIVET
- "DE BALZAC."
- "DE BALZAC."
- LA DUCHESSE D'ABRANTES
- "HONORE DE BALZAC."
- 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
- "DE BALZAC."
- 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
- MADAME DE BERNY
- "DE BALZAC."
- "I live by my friendships only."
In presenting this study of Balzac's intimate relations with various women, the author regrets her inability, owing to war conditions, to consult a few books which are out of print and certain documents which have not appeared at all in print, notably the collection of the late Vicomte de Spoelberch de Lovenjoul. The author gladly takes this opport...
A quantity of books have been written about Balzac, some of which are very instructive, while others are nothing but compilations of gossip which give a totally wrong impression of the life, works and personality of the great French novelist. Having the honor of being the niece of his wife, the wonderful Etrangere, whom he married after seventeen y...
The steady rise of Balzac's reputation during the last few decades has been such that almost each year new studies have appeared about him. While the women portrayed in the Comedie humaine are often commented upon, no recent work dealing in detail with the novelist's intimate association with women and which might lead to identifying the possible s...
In the delightful city of Tours, the childhood of Honore de Balzac was spent in the midst of his family. This consisted of an original and most congenial old father, a nervous, business−like mother, two younger sisters, Laure and Laurentia, and a younger brother, Henri. His maternal grandmother, Madame Sallambier, joined the family after the death ...
"To the Casket containing all things delightful; to the Elixir of Virtue, of Grace, and of Beauty; to the Gem, to the Prodigy of all Normandy; to the Pearl of the Bayeux; to the Fairy of St. Laurence; to the Madonna of the Rue Teinture; to the Guardian Angel of Caen, to the Goddess of Enchanting Spells; to the Treasury of all Friendship−−to Laura!"...
"Ah we are fine specimens in this blessed family of ours! What a pity we can't put ourselves into novels." Another member of Balzac's family circle was his affectionate and amiable grandmother, whom he loved from childhood. After her husband's death, Madame Sallambier lived with her daughter, Madame de Balzac. She seems to have had a kind dispositi...
"Madame, may God grant that this book have a longer life than mine! The gratitude which I have vowed to you, and which I hope will equal your almost maternal affection for me, would last beyond the limits prescribed for human feeling. This sublime privilege of prolonging the life in our hearts by the life of our works would be, if there were ever a...
"You are my public, you and a few other chosen souls, whom I wish to please; but yourself especially, whom I am proud to know, you whom I have never seen or listened to without gaining some benefit, you who have the courage to aid me in tearing up the evil weeds from my field, you who encourage me to perfect myself, you who resemble so much that an...
While hiding from his creditors, Balzac took refuge with Madame Carraud at Issoudun, where he assumed the name of Madame Dubois to receive his mail. Here he met some people whose names he made immortal by describing them in his Menage de Garcon, called later La Rabouilleuse. The priest Badinot introduced him to La Cognette, the landlady to whom the...
Though Balzac's first play, and first attempt in literature, Cromwell, was a complete failure, this did not deter him from longing to become a successful playwright. After having established himself as a novelist, he turned again to this field of literature. Having written several plays, he was acquainted, naturally, with the leading actresses of h...
"She has ended like the Empire." Another of Balzac's literary friends was Madame Laure Junot, the Duchesse d'Abrantes. She was an intimate friend of Madame de Girardin and it was in the salon of the latter's mother, Madame Sophie Gay, that Balzac met her. The Duchesse d'Abrantes, widow of Marechal Junot, had enjoyed under the Empire all the splendo...
If such was the role played by Balzac in the life of Madame d'Abrantes, how is she reflected in the Comedie humaine? It is a well known fact that Balzac not only borrowed names from living people, but that he portrayed the features, incidents and peculiarities of those with whom he was closely associated. In the Avant−propos de la Comedie humaine, ...
A woman with whom Balzac was to have business dealings early in his literary career was Madame Charles Bechet, of whom he said: "This publisher is a woman, a widow whom I have never seen, and whom I do not know. I shall not send off this letter until the signatures are appended on both sides, so that my missive may carry you good news about my inte...
"You wish to know if I have met Foedora, if she is true? A woman from cold Russia, the Princess Bagration, is supposed in Paris to be the model for her. I have reached the seventy−second woman who has had the impertinence to recognize herself in that character. They are all of ripe age. Even Madame Recamier is willing to foedorize herself. Not a wo...
"Madame de Visconti, of whom you speak to me, is one of the most amiable of women, of an infinite, exquisite kindness; a delicate and elegant beauty. She helps me much to bear my life. She is gentle, and full of firmness, immovable and implacable in her ideas and her repugnances. She is a person to be depended on. She has not been fortunate, or rat...
"I have found a letter from the kind Comtesse Loulou, who loves you and whom you love, and in whose letter your name is mentioned in a melancholy sentence which drew tears to my eyes; . . . I am going to write to the good Loulou without telling her all she has done by her letter, for such things are difficult to express, even to that kind German wo...
The Countess de Bocarme, nee du Chasteler, was an artist who helped Balzac by painting in water−colors the portraits of her uncle, the field−marshal, and Andreas Hofer; he wished these in order to be able to depict the heroes of the Tyrol in the campaign of 1809. She painted also the entire armorial for the Etudes de Moeurs; this consisted of about...
Several women whom Balzac knew, but who apparently had no special influence over his life, are mentioned here; he evidently did not care enough for them or did not know them well enough to include their names in the dedicatory register of the Comedie humaine. This, however, by no means exhausts the list of his acquaintances among women. Many of the...
"To Maria: "May your name, that of one whose portrait is the noblest ornament of this work, lie on its opening page like a branch of sacred box, taken from an unknown tree, but sanctified by religion, and kept ever fresh and green by pious hand to protect the home.
"I have to stand alone now amidst my troubles; formerly I had beside me in my struggles the most courageous and the sweetest person in the world, a woman whose memory is each day renewed in my heart, and whose divine qualities make all other friendships when compared with hers seem pale. I no longer have help in the difficulties of life; when I am ...
In the spring of 1834, M. de Hanski and his family left Geneva for Florence, traveled for a few months, and arrived in Vienna during the summer, where they remained for about a year. But Balzac continued his correspondence with Madame Hanska. She was interested in collecting the autographs of famous people, and Balzac not only had an album made for...
Many people write their romances, others live them; Honore de Balzac did both. This life so full of romantic fiction mingled with stern reality, where the burden of debt is counter−balanced by dramatic passion, where hallucination can scarcely be distinguished from fact, where the weary traveler is ever seeking gold, rest, or love, ever longing to ...
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a book on the metaphor of the living dead in Balzac, Zola and Baudelaire. scott lee is Associate Professor of French at the University of Prince Edward Island (Canada). He has published on Balzac s shorter ction, both in La Comédie humaine and Les Contes drolatiques. He is the author of Traces de l excès: essai sur la nouvelle philosophique ...
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Jul 17, 1971 · Brazen Women of Balzac, The: H Thompson rev. This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996.
