The Physiology of Marriage/Part 1

by Honoré de Balzac

A GENERAL CONSIDERATION.

We will declaim against stupid laws until they are changed, and in the meantime blindly submit to them.—Diderot, Supplement to the Voyage of Bougainville.

Meditation I: The Subject
Meditation II: Marriage Statistics
Meditation III: Of the Honest Woman
Meditation IV: Of the Virtuous Woman
Meditation V: Of the Predestined
Meditation VI: Of Boarding Schools
Meditation VII: Of the Honeymoon
Meditation VIII: Of the First Symptoms
Meditation IX: Epilogue