TY - BOOK AU - Balzac,Honoré de AU - Marriage,Ellen TI - The Duchesse of Langeais AV - PQ PY - 2004/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - France -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction KW - French fiction -- Translations into English N1 - Second part of the trilogy, "The Thirteen."; Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Duchesse_de_Langeais; Release date is 2004-09-19; Produced by An Anonymous Volunteer, and David Widger; Original publication data not identified N2 - "The Duchesse of Langeais" by Honoré de Balzac is a novel published in 1834. A decorated General becomes obsessed with a married aristocrat who delights in flirtation but denies him her affections before vanishing entirely. With help from a mysterious occult society called The Thirteen, he tracks her to a remote Spanish monastery where she has taken vows. This portrait of Parisian society explores the dangerous games played between desire and power in post-Napoleonic France. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/469 ER -