Beatrix - 9781545347430

A handsome young man named Calyste du Gu?nic is in love with the older woman, F?licit? des Touches, a famous writer who uses the pen name of Camille Maupin. F?licit? at first does not reciprocate Calyste's feelings, and Calyste falls in love with the blonde marchioness B?atrix de Rochefide. B?atrix is a beautiful but selfish woman; one critic remarked in 1897 in regards to B?atrix that "for cold-blooded cruelty and vulgarity she is unexampled, and her efforts to keep her youth and her hold over men are drawn in Balzac's heaviest and most pitiless manner."B?atrix had already had an affair with Gennaro Conti, and Calyste has an additional rival in the form of Claude Vignon. F?licit? des Touches (Camille Maupin) tries to help Calyste win B?atrix's heart, thus sacrificing her own. Calyste's efforts are ultimately a failure, and B?atrix is taken away by Gennaro Conti. Calyste is devastated by his failure, but promises his dying father to get married. F?licit? des Touches enters a convent, but before she does, she uses her fortune to arrange a marriage for Calyste with a woman named Sabine de Grandlieu. When Calyste encounters B?atrix again in Paris, his wife Sabine struggles to win back her husband's affections after Calyste falls for B?atrix again. Subsequently, through the intercession of Count Maxime de Trailles, B?atrix falls for another young man, and Calyste comes to his senses.

Author: Honor?de Balzac, Katharine Prescott Wormeley

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Publication Date: Apr 15, 2017

Number of Pages: 310 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 1545347433

ISBN-13: 9781545347430