01762cam a22003493u 4500 1556 UtSlPG 20260610133046.0 m cr n 260607r2005||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 PQ Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850 The Marriage Contract Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2005 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Contrat_de_mariage Release date is 2005-03-12 Produced by John Bickers, and Dagny, and David Widger "The Marriage Contract" by Honoré de Balzac is a novel published in 1835. When wealthy Parisian bachelor Paul de Manerville falls for beautiful Spanish heiress Natalie Evangelista, he ignores his worldly friend's warnings and plunges into marriage. Blinded by romantic illusions, Paul fails to see the scheming ambitions of Natalie's calculating mother or recognize where his bride's true loyalties lie. This tale explores the dangerous gap between marital dreams and harsh reality, following not just the courtship but the cold negotiations that follow. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Original publication data not identified Marriage -- Fiction France -- Social life and customs -- Fiction French fiction -- Translations into English Wormeley, Katharine Prescott, 1830-1908 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1556 43672 43672