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Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan
Honoré de Balzac
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"Fools love well, sometimes," returned the marquise.
"But in this case," said the princess, "fools wouldn't have enough credulity in their nature."
"You are right," said the marquise. "But what we ought to look for is neither a fool nor even a man of talent. To solve our problem we need a man of genius. Genius alone has the faith of childhood, the religion of love, and willingly allows us to band its eyes. Look at Canalis and the Duchesse de Chaulieu! Though we have both encountered men of genius, they were either too far removed from us or too busy, and we too absorbed, too frivolous."
"Ah! how I wish I might not leave this . . . Read More
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Community Reviews
the setup for this is pretty crazy, because it's like maneater Amy Dunne à la française meets Jane Eyre, which is what's saving it from being a lower rating. every torturous page of Diane de Cadignan lamenting her terrible life— having to throw parties, bearing a son, and being so wealthy that she j
Une belle histoire d'amour entre Diane d'Uxelles et Daniel d'Arthez, mais qui finit anti-climatiquement ou très platement. On ne sait même pas si la princesse a pu marier son fils ou pas. Il est bien triste que je n'ai pas trouvé un ouvrage original (français) du livre, mais une copie réalisée aux s
HONORE DE BALZAC-LES SECRETES DE PRINCESSE DE CADIGNAN
✒"Avouons-le d’ailleurs ? Il faut être reine pour savoir abdiquer, et descendre noblement d’une position élevée qui n’est jamais entièrement perdue. Ceux-là seuls qui ont la conscience de n’être rien par eux-mêmes, manifestent des regrets en tomb
This sixty page novella did more to titillate my fancy than actually satisfy it: Balzac is capable of so much better. Falling into a classification I've come to beware of: the 'one trick pony' of a story, supported by only a single plot structure, and lacking any orchestration of background themes o
I was glad to be revisiting Balzac's Paris. It is in the time of Louis-Phillipe. After the disasters of the revolution of July, which destroyed so many aristocratic fortunes dependent on the court, Madame la Princesse de Cadignan was clever enough to attribute to political events the total ruin she
Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan is a comic tale about a society woman, a Princess and a Duchess, who attempts to recycle her slightly seedy past by pursuing a minor literary figure of great probity and innocence. The Princess de Cadignan, aka the Duchesse de Maufrigneuse, has consorted with suc
This is a good short story mostly for Balzac fans who have read Lost Illusions and A Harlot High and Low. Although I am reading the whole Human Comedy, I was especially interested in this one to discover what happened to Daniel Arthez, who was Lucien de Rubempre's friend from the aforementioned book