The False Mistress
the False Mistress is a Romance French of Honore de Balzac published in 1841 the Century (newspaper) , published in volume in five chapters in the edition Furne 1842 in the Scènes of the private life of the Études of Manners . Written with haste during one time of difficult relationship with Mrs Hanska, the novel is a plea on the need for a distorts adventure (those, many, that the author A) for hiding in the world its true love (the Countess). A little grooved in the style, work does not offer of it less the charm, the environment and the mystery of the Girl to the eyes of gold, although this time it is about a passionately devoted man to another man, of a satisfied passion, which does not require any against part.
Synopsis
Paz, the intendant of the count Adam Laginski is a male version of Lisbeth Fisher, the Cousin White beet, but is to him Petri of kindness, although it is a kind of alive poor relation in the shade of the count Laginski. Clementine of Reopens, wife of the count, perceives in this strange being a species of mystery. Odd-job man, treasurer and omnipresent, it will be able to save the situation of the couple when the husband ruins himself with the play. In love at the same time with his Master and his mistress, the Count Thaddée Paz is one of the strangest characters of the human Comedy. In this book eminently society man, one finds the important figures of the Parisian living rooms: Diane de Maufrigneuse, Madam de Portenduère (Ursule Mirouët), Marie de Vandenesse, Florine which also appears in the Cousin White beet, Malaga, circus rider (also in the Cousin White beet), who, from mistress of the count Paz, passes in the arms of the count Laginski. Other important characters: the marquis de Ronquerolle, uncle de Clémentine which it ensures a generous financing, Madam de Sérisy (aunt de Clémentine, which one also finds in Splendeurs and miseries of the courtesans), and the inevitable dandy Maxime de Trailles which haunts the human Comedy, from one novel to another.
Adaptation to the cinema
to see: Films based on the work of Honore de Balzac
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