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'''''Le Lys dans la Vallée''''' (English: '''''The Lily of the Valley''''') is an 1835 novel about love and society by the French novelist and playwright [[Honoré de Balzac]] (1799–1850). It concerns the emotionally vibrant but never consummated affection between Félix de Vandenesse and Henriette de Mortsauf. It is part of his series of novels (or ''Roman-fleuve'') known as ''[[La Comédie humaine]]'' (''The Human Comedy''), which parodies and depicts French society in the period of the [[Bourbon Restoration in France|Bourbon Restoration]] and the [[July Monarchy]] (1815–1848). In his novel he also mentions the château [[Azay-le-Rideau]], which can still be visited today.
'''''Le Lys dans la Vallée''''' (English: '''''The Lily of the Valley''''') is an 1835 novel about love and society by the French novelist and playwright [[Honoré de Balzac]] (1799–1850). (The title, in French, does not refer to the English flower called "lily of the valley", which is called "muguet" in French). It primarily concerns the emotionally vibrant but never physically consummated affection between Félix de Vandenesse and Henriette de Mortsauf. It is part of his series of novels (or ''Roman-fleuve'') known as ''[[La Comédie humaine]]'' (''The Human Comedy''), which parodies and depicts French society in the period of the [[Bourbon Restoration in France|Bourbon Restoration]] and the [[July Monarchy]] (1815–1848). In his novel he also mentions the château [[Azay-le-Rideau]], in the Loire Valley, which can still be visited today.


==Inspiration==
==Inspiration==
Henriette de Mortsauf was modelled on Balzac's close friend [[Laure Antoinette de Berny]] (née Hinner), a woman 22 years his senior who greatly encouraged his early career.<ref>''Honoré de Balzac'' by Albert Keim and Louis Lumet, chapter 4</ref> Mme. de Berny died shortly after reading the completed novel<ref>''Women in the Life of Balzac'' by Juanita Helm Floyd</ref> &mdash; in which Henriette also dies.
Henriette de Mortsauf was modelled on Balzac's close friend [[Laure Antoinette de Berny]] (née Hinner), a woman 22 years his senior who greatly encouraged his early career.<ref>''Honoré de Balzac'' by Albert Keim and Louis Lumet, chapter 4</ref> Mme. de Berny died shortly after reading the completed novel<ref>''Women in the Life of Balzac'' by Juanita Helm Floyd</ref> &mdash; in which Henriette also dies.

== English translations ==

* [[Katherine Prescott Wormeley|Katharine Prescott Wormeley]]: ''The Lily of the Valley'' (Roberts Bros., 1891)<ref>{{Cite book |last=Balzac |first=Honoré de |url=http://archive.org/details/lilyofvalley00balzrich |title=The lily of the valley |last2=Wormeley |first2=Katharine Prescott |date=1891 |publisher=Boston, Roberts brothers |others=University of California Libraries}}</ref>
* [[Ellen Marriage]] (under pseudonym "James Waring": ''The Lily of the Valley'' (J. M. Dent, 1897)
* Peter Bush: ''The Lily of the Valley'' (New York Review Books, 2024)


==References==
==References==
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Latest revision as of 20:28, 16 June 2024

Le Lys dans la Vallée
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AuthorHonoré de Balzac
IllustratorÉdouard Toudouze
LanguageFrench
SeriesLa Comédie humaine
PublisherEdmond Werdet
Publication date
1835
Publication placeFrance
Preceded byLe Curé de village 
Followed byLa Peau de chagrin 

Le Lys dans la Vallée (English: The Lily of the Valley) is an 1835 novel about love and society by the French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850). (The title, in French, does not refer to the English flower called "lily of the valley", which is called "muguet" in French). It primarily concerns the emotionally vibrant but never physically consummated affection between Félix de Vandenesse and Henriette de Mortsauf. It is part of his series of novels (or Roman-fleuve) known as La Comédie humaine (The Human Comedy), which parodies and depicts French society in the period of the Bourbon Restoration and the July Monarchy (1815–1848). In his novel he also mentions the château Azay-le-Rideau, in the Loire Valley, which can still be visited today.

Inspiration

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Henriette de Mortsauf was modelled on Balzac's close friend Laure Antoinette de Berny (née Hinner), a woman 22 years his senior who greatly encouraged his early career.[1] Mme. de Berny died shortly after reading the completed novel[2] — in which Henriette also dies.

English translations

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  • Katharine Prescott Wormeley: The Lily of the Valley (Roberts Bros., 1891)[3]
  • Ellen Marriage (under pseudonym "James Waring": The Lily of the Valley (J. M. Dent, 1897)
  • Peter Bush: The Lily of the Valley (New York Review Books, 2024)

References

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  1. ^ Honoré de Balzac by Albert Keim and Louis Lumet, chapter 4
  2. ^ Women in the Life of Balzac by Juanita Helm Floyd
  3. ^ Balzac, Honoré de; Wormeley, Katharine Prescott (1891). The lily of the valley. University of California Libraries. Boston, Roberts brothers.
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