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Another Study of Woman

by Honoré de Balzac

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The conversation at Mademoiselle des Touches's supper table becomes the centre of a portrait of fashionable Paris. Honoré de Balzac begins with the formal gathering, then follows the more intimate company that stays to exchange anecdotes and opinions. Artists, politicians and friends share the table, where Émile Blondet asks de Marsay which experience first revealed his vocation as a statesman. Their talk connects personal recollection with changes in French society.

In the discussion of a "perfect lady," Blondet describes clothes, shoes, a shawl and the way a woman moves through the street. These small observations reveal the standards by which the speakers judge refinement and rank. Presented in English translation, this French fiction gives readers a close view of social conversation as both entertainment and a means of defining status. The guests' certainty about manners makes their judgments as revealing as the people they describe.

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Honoré de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) was a French novelist whose vast Human Comedy, a connected series of novels and stories, is a monument of literary realism and one of the great achievements of world literature.

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Reading time
About 70 minutes
Pages
33
Language
English
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Audio read by
Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)