A Paris literary lion seduces the wife of an Alsatian ironmaster, and the husband — a slow, decent, formidable man — declines to behave like a comic figure. Charles de Bernard was befriended by Balzac, who read his admiring review and adopted him; his subject was the drawing room of the July Monarchy, and this is his best-known book.

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E-Book: 19. August 2026