# The Duchesse of Langeais

By Honoré de Balzac.

"The Duchesse of Langeais" by Honoré de Balzac is a novel published in 1834. A decorated General becomes obsessed with a married aristocrat who delights in flirtation but denies him her affections before vanishing entirely. With help from a mysterious occult society called The Thirteen, he tracks her to a remote Spanish monastery where she has taken vows. This portrait of Parisian society explores the dangerous games played between desire and power in post-Napoleonic France. (Summary by Project Gutenberg, written by machine.)

- Language: English
- Translator: Ellen Marriage
- Subjects: France -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction; French fiction -- Translations into English

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## Audiobooks of it

- [Duchess of Langeais](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/books/librivox/18769) by Honoré de Balzac (7 h 14 min, English)

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