STUDY OF A WOMAN
BY
HONORE DE BALZAC
Translated By
Katharine Prescott Wormeley
DEDICATION
To the Marquis Jean-Charles di Negro.
STUDY OF A WOMAN
The Marquise de Listomere is one of those young women who have been
brought up in the spirit of the Restoration. She has principles, she
fasts, takes the sacrament, and goes to balls and operas very
elegantly dressed; her confessor permits her to combine the mundane
with sanctity. Always in conformity with the Church and with the
world, she presents a living image of the present day, which seems to
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