After a biographical sketch, Floyd studies the women who shaped Balzac: his mother and his sister Laure, Madame de Berny and the Duchesse d’Abrantès, literary, business and social friends and correspondents, and finally Madame Hanska, the Polish countess he courted by letter for years. His own letters are quoted throughout.
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