TY - BOOK AU - Balzac,Honoré de TI - La Maison du Chat-qui-pelote AV - PQ PY - 2008/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - France -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction KW - French fiction -- 19th century N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Maison_du_chat-qui-pelote Wikipedia page about this book: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Maison_du_Chat-qui-pelote; Release date is 2008-01-07; Original publication data not identified N2 - "La Maison du Chat-qui-pelote" by Honoré de Balzac is a novella published in 1830. Set in early 1811 Paris, it follows Augustine, daughter of an austere draper, who marries Théodore de Sommervieux, an aristocratic painter captivated by her beauty. As the initial passion fades, their vastly different worlds and values collide. Augustine finds herself lost in a society she cannot understand, while her husband grows distant and cruel. This opening work of Balzac's "La Comédie humaine" explores the dangers of marriages across social worlds. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24217 ER -