From the ""Scenes of Private Life"" section of Honore de Balzac''s great masterwork The Human Comedy, this novella is set at a grand ball at the height of the Napoleonic era. The usual suspects from the city''s aristocracy are joined by a newcomer --...
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From the ""Scenes of Private Life"" section of Honore de Balzac''s great masterwork The Human Comedy, this novella is set at a grand ball at the height of the Napoleonic era. The usual suspects from the city''s aristocracy are joined by a newcomer -- a mysterious, beautiful young woman whose eyes seem to bespeak an overwhelming sadness. Several of the men in attendance vie for her affections -- and all of their lives are changed in the course of a single evening
