Modeste Mignon

Modeste Mignon by Honoré de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley

First published 1844. Included as part of La Comédie humaine.

• Dedication
• Chapter I: THE CHALET
• Chapter II: A PORTRAIT FROM LIFE
• Chapter III: PRELIMINARIES
• Chapter IV: A SIMPLE STORY
• Chapter V: THE PROBLEM STILL UNSOLVED
• Chapter VI: A MAIDEN'S FIRST ROMANCE
• Chapter VII: A POET OF THE ANGELIC SCHOOL
• Chapter VIII: BLADE TO BLADE
• Chapter IX: THE POWER OF THE UNSEEN
• Chapter X: THE MARRIAGE OF SOULS
• Chapter XI: WHAT COMES OF CORRESPONDENCE
• Chapter XII: A DECLARATION OF LOVE,—SET TO MUSIC
• Chapter XIII: A FULL-LENGTH PORTRAIT OF MONSIEUR DE LA BRIERE
• Chapter XIV: MATTERS GROWN COMPLICATED
• Chapter XV: A FATHER STEPS IN
• Chapter XVI: DISENCHANTED
• Chapter XVII: A THIRD SUITOR
• Chapter XVIII: A SPLENDID FIRST APPEARANCE
• Chapter XIX: OF WHICH THE AUTHOR THINKS A GOOD DEAL
• Chapter XX: THE POET DOES HIS EXERCISES
• Chapter XXI: MODESTE PLAYS HER PART
• Chapter XXII: A RIDDLE GUESSED
• Chapter XXIII: BUTSCHA DISTINGUISHES HIMSELF
• Chapter XXIV: THE POET FEELS THAT HE IS LOVED TOO WELL
• Chapter XXV: A DIPLOMATIC LETTER
• Chapter XXVI: TRUE LOVE
• Chapter XXVII: A GIRL'S REVENGE
• Chapter XXVIII: MODESTE BEHAVES WITH DIGNITY
• Chapter XXIX: CONCLUSION
• Addendum

This work published before January 1, 1923 is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.