Beatrix

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Honoré de Balzac. Beatrix

Beatrix

Table of Contents

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

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Honoré de Balzac

Published by Good Press, 2019

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“I should not like to put him to the proof; you would suffer too much,” replied the rector. “All Guerande is turned upside down about Calyste’s passion for this amphibious creature, who is neither man nor woman, who smokes like an hussar, writes like a journalist, and has at this very moment in her house the most venomous of all writers—so the postmaster says, and he’s a juste-milieu man who reads the papers. They are even talking about her at Nantes. This morning the Kergarouet cousin who wants to marry Charlotte to a man with sixty thousand francs a year, went to see Mademoiselle de Pen-Hoel, and filled her mind with tales about Mademoiselle des Touches which lasted seven hours. It is now striking a quarter to ten, and Calyste is not home; he is at Les Touches—perhaps he won’t come in all night.”

The baroness listened to the rector, who was substituting monologue for dialogue unconsciously as he looked at this lamb of his fold, on whose face could be read her anxiety. She colored and trembled. When the worthy man saw the tears in the beautiful eyes of the mother, he was moved to compassion.

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