About “Le Contrat de mariage”
Le Contrat de mariage is an 1835 novel by French author Honoré de Balzac, part of the Scènes de la vie privée section of his larger work La Comédie humaine. The story is set in Bordeaux and follows the marriage of a Parisian gentleman, Paul de Manerville, to Natalie Evangelista, a beautiful but spoiled Spanish heiress. The novel explores themes of marriage, social status, and personal ambition within a specific historical and cultural context. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)
Book details
- First published
- 1835