Beatrix

by Honoré de Balzac

• Translator's note
• Chapter I: A BRETON TOWN AND MANSION
• Chapter II: THE BARON, HIS WIFE, AND SISTER
• Chapter III: THREE BRETON SILHOUETTES
• Chapter IV: A NORMAL EVENING
• Chapter V: CALYSTE
• Chapter VI: BIOGRAPHY OF CAMILLE MAUPIN
• Chapter VII: LES TOUCHES
• Chapter VIII: LA MARQUISE BEATRIX
• Chapter IX: A FIRST MEETING
• Chapter X: DRAMA
• Chapter XI: FEMALE DIPLOMACY
• Chapter XII: CORRESPONDENCE
• Chapter XIII: DUEL BETWEEN WOMEN
• Chapter XIV: AN EXCURSION TO CROISIC
• Chapter XV: CONTI
• Chapter XVI: SICKNESS UNTO DEATH
• Chapter XVII: A DEATH, A MARRIAGE
• Chapter XVIII: THE END OF A HONEY-MOON
• Chapter XIX: THE FIRST LIE OF A PIOUS DUCHESS
• Chapter XX: A SHORT TREATISE ON CERTAINTY
• Chapter XXI: THE WICKEDNESS OF A GOOD WOMAN
• Chapter XXII: THE NORMAL HISTORY OF AN UPPER-CLASS GRISETTE
• Chapter XXIII: ONE OF THE DISEASES OF THE AGE
• Chapter XXIV: THE INFLUENCE OF SOCIAL RELATIONS AND POSITION
• Chapter XXV: A PRINCE OF BOHEMIA
• Chapter XXVI: DISILLUSIONS—IN ALL BUT LA FONTAINE'S FABLES
• Addendum