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The Marriage Contract

By Honoré de Balzac

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Le Contrat de mariage (English: A Marriage Contract or A Marriage Settlement) is an 1835 novel by French author Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) and included in the Scènes de la vie privée section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine. Set in Bordeaux, it describes the marriage of a Parisian gentleman, Paul de Manerville, to the beautiful but spoiled Spanish heiress, Natalie Evangelista.
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THE MARRIAGE CONTRACT
- Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
  - DEDICATION To Rossini.
- Contents
  - THE MARRIAGE CONTRACT
  - ADDENDUM
THE MARRIAGE CONTRACT
- CHAPTER I. PRO AND CON
- CHAPTER II. THE PINK OF FASHION
- CHAPTER III. THE MARRIAGE CONTRACT—FIRST DAY
- CHAPTER IV. THE MARRIAGE CONTRACT—SECOND DAY
- CHAPTER V. THE MARRIAGE CONTRACT—THIRD DAY
- CHAPTER VI. CONCLUSION
- ADDENDUM
  - The following personages appear in other stories of the Human Comedy.