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La Grande Breteche
Honoré de Balzac · Clara Bell · Ellen Marriage
About this book
Balzac's "La Grande Bretèche" is a short story in which a physician recounts the fate of a woman whose lover was walled up alive in her bedroom by her jealous husband. It suits readers interested in classic French literature and Gothic tales of suspense and revenge.
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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