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Domestic Peace
Honoré de Balzac · Clara Bell · Ellen Marriage
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"Domestic Peace" (La Paix du ménage) is a short story by Honoré de Balzac, set at an imperial ball during the Napoleonic era, translated into English by Clara Bell and Ellen Marriage. It suits readers interested in nineteenth-century French literature and Balzac's *La Comédie humaine*.
Honoré de Balzac
Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, described as a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus.
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