written without any global plan (Les Chouans is a historical novel; Physiologie du mariage is an analytical study of marriage), but by 1830 Balzac began to...

dedicated the edition to Maria Du Fresnay, who was then his lover and was the mother of his daughter, Marie-Caroline Du Fresnay. Eugénie Grandet is set...

in life, Balzac had already written two treatises on marriage: Physiologie du Mariage and Scènes de la Vie Conjugale. These works lacked firsthand knowledge;...

achieved a major success later the same year when he published La Physiologie du mariage, a treatise on the institution of marriage. Bolstered by its popularity...

Death-Dodger, or Dare-Devil); Les Deux Filles (The Two Daughters); La Mort du Père (The Father's Death). The character Eugène de Rastignac had appeared...

non-canon) La Cousine Bette (small, unnamed appearance) Le Contrat de mariage (mentioned) Vautrin, forbidden in 1840 Vautrin, by Émile Guirard, staged...

Médicis Louis Lambert Les Proscrits Séraphîta Études analytiques La Physiologie du mariage Petites misères de la vie conjugale Related Eugène de Rastignac...

When Nathan emerges as an electoral rival to du Tillet, Rastignac changes sides and does not warn Nathan of du Tillet's plans to bankrupt him (via Gigonnet)...

published in 1829, he released a treatise about the institution called Physiologie du Mariage. His attention to the details of relationships – failed and successful...

writer Daniel d'Arthez. Jilted by Mme de Bargeton for the adventurer Sixte du Châtelet, he moves in a social circle of high-class actress-prostitutes and...