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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.

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