TY - BOOK AU - Balzac,Honoré de AU - Bell,Clara TI - A Second Home AV - PQ PY - 2005/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - French fiction -- Translations into English N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Une_double_famille; Release date is 2005-08-29; Produced by John Bickers, and Dagny; Original publication data not identified N2 - "A Second Home" by Honoré de Balzac is a short story first published in 1830. This tale explores the moral complexities of a double life through Comte de Granville, an aristocratic magistrate trapped in a loveless marriage to a sanctimonious woman. When he encounters Caroline Crochard, a young woman living in poverty, he establishes a secret second family with her. Balzac contrasts the cold righteousness of the Count's aristocratic home with the warmth of his hidden life, raising questions about virtue, happiness, and the consequences of forbidden love. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1810 ER -