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Béatrix
Honoré de Balzac · 1839 · Romance, Drama & Literary
Balzac's tale of a young Breton nobleman undone by love. Calyste du Guenic, the pure last son of a proud, impoverished house, is drawn into the brilliant circle of the writer Camille Maupin, then swept away by the beautiful, vain Marquise Beatrix de Rochefide. From the granite ramparts of Guerande to the treacherous salons of Paris, it is a story of devotion, vanity and the long war of two women for one man's heart.
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This edition
- Title
- Béatrix
- Author
- Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850)
- First published
- 1839
- Illustrated plates
- 48 original artworks · 22 open to everyone
- Chapters
- 26 · about 115,601 words
- Reading time
- 7 h 42 min
- Language
- EN
- Formats
- Read online · EPUB and PDF download with a subscription
- Publisher
- LitLab — The Illustrated Classics
- On LitLab since
- August 2026
- Rights
- Text in the public domain. Illustrations and edition © LitLab.
- Source text
- Project Gutenberg #1957
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