Honore de Balzac excelled at creating unforgettable characters, but most of his creations were works of pure fiction. Many critics have asserted that the novel Beatrix is a roman a clef depicting the life of the French memoirist George Sand, as well...
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Honore de Balzac excelled at creating unforgettable characters, but most of his creations were works of pure fiction. Many critics have asserted that the novel Beatrix is a roman a clef depicting the life of the French memoirist George Sand, as well as the larger cultural shift from an era of genteel aristocracy and class stratification to a more democratic way of living
Title; Contents; Note; 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; 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 WomanXXII - 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; Endnotes
