Letters of Two Brides
1842
Letters of Two Brides, published in 1842 by Honoré de Balzac, is an epistolary novel that explores the lives of two married women as they navigate love, duty, and societal expectations. Through their correspondence, Balzac examines the contrasting desires and experiences of women in 19th-century France. This work is part of Balzac's larger collection, The Human Comedy, which aims to depict the realities of bourgeois life and has influenced the development of realism in European literature.
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“En toute autre chose, la duplicité, le manque de foi, les promesses inexécutées rencontrent des juges, et les juges infligent des châtiments; mais il n'en est pas ainsi pour l'amour, qui doit être à la fois la victime, l'accusateur, l'avocat, le tribunal et le bourreau: car les plus atroces perfidies, les plus horribles crimes demeurent inconnus, se commettent l'âme à âme sans témoins, et il est dans l'intérêt bien entendu de l'assassiné de se taire. L'amour a donc son code à lui, sa vengeance à lui: le monde n'a rien à y voir.””
— Honoré de Balzac
“I see in marriage, as it at present exists, two opposing forces which it was the task of the lawgiver to reconcile. ... The laws were made by old men”
— Honoré de Balzac
“Clarissa Harlowe””
— Honoré de Balzac
“After the snows of Siberia, a man may well find merit in these black eyes of mine, which, as you used to say, ripened any fruit that I gazed upon.””
— Honoré de Balzac
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