A proper story at last.
I hadn’t realised how early in the 19th century Balzac was writing; 1820’s/30’s. So there is lots of classicism, an almost 18th-century court, and courtiers and no Industrial Revolution evident.
This is a fairly simple story about a young heiress not being tempted by her father’s and lover’s corruption. She ends up as a kind of pre-Jamesian heroine, renouncing love in favour of duty and religion.
It is a good book, better than the above makes it sound.
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