In 1800 the Corsican Bartolomeo di Piombo arrives in Paris with his wife and daughter, having wiped out a rival family in a blood feud. Years later Ginevra, the adored daughter who shares all his passions, falls in love in a painter’s studio with a young Bonapartist officer on the run, and her father learns who he is.
A short, fierce tale of family pride from The Human Comedy, a quick way into Balzac. Download the free EPUB.