Name: Béatrix (in French)
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Author: Honoré De Balzac

Type

Physical Book

Author

Honoré De Balzac

Illustrated by

Gustavo J. Sanchez

Publisher

Createspace

Language

French

Pages

272

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x15.2x1.4 cm

Weight

0.37 kg.

ISBN13

9781542759427

Synopsis "Béatrix (in French)"

Béatrix is an 1839 novel by French author Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) and included in the Scènes de la vie privée section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine. Le roman contient les plus beaux portraits de femmes de La Comédie humaine. Dans la vieille Bretagne aristocratique, à Guérande enceinte de ses puissantes murailles, le jeune Calyste du Guénic cherche un idéal de vie que semble lui offrir la fréquentation de Félicité des Touches, écrivaine et musicienne déjà célèbre sous le pseudonyme de Camille Maupin . Mais Calyste a un rival: Claude Vignon, auteur célèbre et soupirant assidu de Félicité. Quand la marquise Béatrix de Rochefide et son amant Conti, un musicien autrefois amant de Félicité, arrivent au château, Calyste est poussé dans les bras de la marquise par Félicité elle-même. Alors qu'il vit un amour bref et intense avec Béatrix, Conti lui enlève soudainement la femme qu'il aime. Le jeune Breton tombe dans un abattement dont Félicité elle-même le tirera en l'emmenant à Paris et en favorisant son mariage avec Sabine de Grandlieu, avant de se retirer au couvent. Toutefois, il retrouvera les bras de la marquise, quittée par Gennaro Conti, au grand dam de son épouse. Sabine ne parviendra à récupérer son mari qu'au terme d'une véritable intrigue amoureuse et mondaine.

Honoré De Balzac

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Honoré de Balzac (1799-1851), novelist, playwright, literary and art critic, essayist, journalist, and French printer, is considered one of the great writers of realism. Born in Tours, in 1814 he moved to Paris, where he studied law and began working in a law firm, but his love for literature drove him to abandon his career and dedicate himself to writing. He undertook several businesses, which ended in failure and left him in debt. With The Last Chouan (1829), he achieved great success. From then on, he began a feverish activity, writing, among others, The Physiology of Marriage (1829) and The Wild Ass's Skin (1831), with which he began to consolidate his prestige. In 1834, Balzac, a tireless worker, conceived the idea of making an exhaustive portrait of French society of his time by having the same characters appear in different stories, which began to give his work a unitary sense under the title of The Human Comedy, to which belong titles such as Eugénie Grandet (1833), Father Goriot (1835), Splendors and Miseries of Courtesans (1838-1847) or Cousin Bette (1846), although of the 137 novels that were to make it up, fifty remained incomplete. An extraordinary writer, capable of deploying in his works sublime reflections and ideas, creating an interesting story with strong social criticism through exquisite prose of great poetic level and philosophical depth, Balzac is considered the founder of the modern novel.

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