La Duchesse de Langeais

by Honoré de Balzac · first published 1832

The Duchess of Langeais (French: La Duchesse de Langeais) is an 1834 novel by French author Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) and included in the Scènes de la vie parisienne ('Scenes from Parisian life') section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine. It first appeared in 1834 under the title Ne touchez pas la hache ('Don't Touch the Axe') in the periodical L'Écho de la Jeune France. It is part of Balzac's 1839 trilogy Histoire des treize: Ferragus is the first part, the second is The Duchess of Langeais, and part three is The Girl with the Golden Eyes.

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Genre:

Realist

Original language:

French

Year page:

1832