The Marriage Contract (Esprios Classics): Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley

Le Contrat de mariage (English: A Marriage Contract or A Marriage Settlement) is an 1835 novel by French author Honor? de Balzac (1799-1850) and included in the Sc?nes de la vie priv?e section of his novel sequence La Com?die humaine. Set in Bordeaux, it describes the marriage of a Parisian gentleman, Paul de Manerville, to the beautiful but spoiled Spanish heiress, Natalie Evangelista. Paul de Manerville is a gentleman born of wealth and nobility who decides, over the objections of his worldly friend de Marsay, to give up his elegant bachelor's life and get married at the age of twenty-seven. He falls in love with a beautiful girl named Natalie Evangelista, the daughter of a proud Spanish matriarch whose financial assets have been diminishing since the death of her husband.

Author: Honoré de Balzac

Publisher: Blurb

Publication Date: Aug 23, 2024

Number of Pages: 140 pages

Binding: Paperback or Softback

ISBN-10: NA

ISBN-13: 9798211361713