A review by lnatal
Albert Savarus by Honoré de Balzac

4.0

Written in 1842, Albert Savarus is a work of a circumstance at the same time a personal testimony. In correspondence since 1832, lovers in 1834, Balzac and Madame Hanska were promised to be married. But the death of the old is Mr. Hanski was waiting.

The story which parodies and depicts French society in the period of the Restoration and the July Monarchy (1815–1848).



The English version can be found at Gutenberg Project

The original French text at La Bibliothèque électronique du Québec.

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