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    <title>Letters of Two Brides</title>
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    <title>Mémoires de deux jeunes mariées. English</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Balzac, Honoré de</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1799-1850</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Scott, R. S.</namePart>
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    <dateIssued encoding="marc">1999</dateIssued>
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  <abstract>"Letters of Two Brides" by Honoré de Balzac is an epistolary novel serialized in 1841 and published in 1842. Through exchanged letters spanning twelve years, two young French women who became friends in a convent navigate vastly different paths after leaving religious life. Louise pursues romance and passion in Parisian society, while Renée chooses pragmatic marriage and devotion to family in Provence. Their contrasting philosophies on love, happiness, and a woman's purpose unfold through intimate correspondence, revealing conflicting visions of fulfillment. (This is an automatically generated summary.)</abstract>
  <note>Translation of: Mémoires de deux jeunes mariées</note>
  <note>Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A9moires_de_deux_jeunes_mari%C3%A9es</note>
  <note>Release date is 1999-10-01</note>
  <note>Produced by John Bickers, Dagny, and David Widger</note>
  <note>Original publication data not identified</note>
  <subject>
    <topic>Married women -- Fiction</topic>
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  <subject>
    <topic>Epistolary fiction</topic>
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  <subject>
    <topic>Man-woman relationships -- Fiction</topic>
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  <subject>
    <topic>French fiction -- Translations into English</topic>
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