The Marquise de Listomère is a young woman of the Restoration, pious, elegant and perfectly correct. When the ambitious Eugène de Rastignac sends her a passionate letter by mistake, she must decide what to make of it, and Balzac watches with amusement as virtue, vanity and curiosity contend.
A deft sketch from The Human Comedy, not to be confused with the separate Another Study of Woman. Download the free EPUB.