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The Physiology of Marriage

by Honoré de Balzac

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  1. 1Introduction
  2. 2First Part. A General Consideration — Meditation I — The Subject
  3. 3Meditation II — Marriage Statistics
  4. 4Meditation III — Of the Honest Woman
  5. 5Aphorisms
  6. 6Meditation IV — Of the Virtuous Woman
  7. 7Meditation V — Of the Predestined
  8. 8Meditation VI — Of Boarding Schools
  9. 9Meditation VII — Of the Honeymoon
  10. 10Meditation VIII — Of the First Symptoms
  11. 11Meditation IX — Epilogue
  12. 12Second Part. Means of Defence, Interior and Exterior — Meditation X…
  13. 13Meditation XI — Instruction in the Home
  14. 14Meditation XII — The Hygiene of Marriage
  15. 15Meditation XIII — Of Personal Measures
  16. 16Meditation XIV — Of Apartments
  17. 17Meditation XV — Of the Custom House
  18. 18Meditation XVI — The Charter of Marriage
  19. 19Meditation XVII — The Theory of the Bed
  20. 20Meditation XVIII — Of Marital Revolutions
  21. 21Meditation XIX — Of the Lover
  22. 22Meditation XX — Essay on Police
  23. 23Meditation XXI — The Art of Returning Home
  24. 24Meditation XXII — Of Catastrophes
  25. 25Third Part. Relating to Civil War — Meditation XXIII — Of Manifestoes
  26. 26Meditation XXIV — Principles of Strategy
  27. 27Meditation XXV — Of Allies
  28. 281 — Of Religions and of Confession; Considered in Their Connection…
  29. 292 — Of the Mother-in-Law
  30. 303 — Of Boarding School Friends and Intimate Friends
  31. 314 — Of the Lover’s Allies
  32. 326 — Of the Doctor
  33. 33Meditation XXVI — Of Different Weapons
  34. 34Meditation XXVII — Of the Last Symptoms
  35. 35Minotauric Observations
  36. 36Last Axioms
  37. 37Meditation XXVIII — Of Compensations
  38. 38Meditation XXIX — Of Conjugal Peace
  39. 39Meditation XXX — Conclusion
  40. 40Postscript

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