The Physiology of Marriage, Complete

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Honoré de Balzac. The Physiology of Marriage, Complete

INTRODUCTION

FIRST PART. A GENERAL CONSIDERATION

MEDITATION I. THE SUBJECT

MEDITATION II. MARRIAGE STATISTICS

MEDITATION III. OF THE HONEST WOMAN

APHORISMS

MEDITATION IV. OF THE VIRTUOUS WOMAN

MEDITATION V. OF THE PREDESTINED

MEDITATION VI. OF BOARDING SCHOOLS

MEDITATION VII. OF THE HONEYMOON

MEDITATION VIII. OF THE FIRST SYMPTOMS

MEDITATION IX. EPILOGUE

SECOND PART. MEANS OF DEFENCE, INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR

MEDITATION X. A TREATISE ON MARITAL POLICY

MEDITATION XI. INSTRUCTION IN THE HOME

MEDITATION XII. THE HYGIENE OF MARRIAGE

MEDITATION XIII. OF PERSONAL MEASURES

MEDITATION XIV. OF APARTMENTS

MEDITATION XV. OF THE CUSTOM HOUSE

MEDITATION XVI. THE CHARTER OF MARRIAGE

MEDITATION XVII. THE THEORY OF THE BED

MEDITATION XVIII. OF MARITAL REVOLUTIONS

MEDITATION XIX. OF THE LOVER

MEDITATION XX. ESSAY ON POLICE

MEDITATION XXI. THE ART OF RETURNING HOME

MEDITATION XXII. OF CATASTROPHES

THIRD PART. RELATING TO CIVIL WAR

MEDITATION XXIII. OF MANIFESTOES

MEDITATION XXIV. PRINCIPLES OF STRATEGY

MEDITATION XXV. OF ALLIES

1. OF RELIGIONS AND OF CONFESSION; CONSIDERED IN THEIR CONNECTION WITH

2. OF THE MOTHER-IN-LAW

3. OF BOARDING SCHOOL FRIENDS AND INTIMATE FRIENDS

4. OF THE LOVER’S ALLIES

6. OF THE DOCTOR

MEDITATION XXVI. OF DIFFERENT WEAPONS

MEDITATION XXVII. OF THE LAST SYMPTOMS

MINOTAURIC OBSERVATIONS

LAST AXIOMS

MEDITATION XXVIII. OF COMPENSATIONS

MEDITATION XXIX. OF CONJUGAL PEACE

MEDITATION XXX. CONCLUSION

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We will declaim against stupid laws until they are changed, and in the meantime blindly submit to them. – Diderot, Supplement to the Voyage of Bougainville.

Is not your object to prove that marriage unites for life two beings who do not know each other?

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With regard to marriage, the difference in duration of the life of love with a man and with a woman is fifteen years. This period is equal to three-fourths of the time during which the infidelities of the woman can bring unhappiness to her husband. Nevertheless, the remainder in our subtraction from the sum of men only differs by a sixth or so from that which results in our subtraction from the sum of women.

Great is the modest caution of our estimates. As to our arguments, they are founded on evidence so widely known, that we have only expounded them for the sake of being exact and in order to anticipate all criticism.

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