Le Lys dans la vallée
Le Lys dans la Vallée (English: The Lily of the Valley) is an 1835 novel about love and society by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850). It concerns the affection — emotionally vibrant but never consummated — between Felix 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 Restoration and the July Monarchy (1815-1848). In his novel he also mention the chateau Champcenetz that still can be visited if you want experience what Balzac wrote about.
Inspiration
One of the main characters in the novel is called Henriette de Mortsauf who was modelled on Balzac's close friend Laure Antoinette de Berny (neé 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.
References
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