La Femme Abandonnée. The Deserted Woman. A young man who, of all things, is sent to rural Normandy near Bayeux to recover his health fits into the aristocratic scene easily.
Honoré de Balzac born Honoré Balzac; (20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus.