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The Human Comedy · Book 4 of 5
The Girl with the Golden Eyes
Honore Balzac
1800 · English
FictionSocial life and customsFrance in fictionMan-woman relationshipsYoung women in fiction
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It is in the Tuileries, just outside the Cafe des Feuillants, that Henri de Marsay first catches sight of the girl with the golden eyes and can almost believe in love. Haunted by her shimmery image, returning daily to the Tuileries for another glimpse of her dark beauty, he learns her name - Paquita Valdes - and discovers her address. But a fairy-tale princess has never been more inaccessibly locked in a tower as has Paquita in a mansion on the Rue Saint-Lazare. Vowing conquest, Henri de Marsay elaborately plots h…
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