description: It is in the Tuileries, just outside the Cafe des Feuillants, that Henri de Marsay first catches sight of the girl with the golden eyes and can almost believe in love. Haunted by her shimmery image, returning daily to the Tuileries for another glimpse of her dark beauty, he learns her name - Paquita Valdes - and discovers her address. But a fairy-tale princess has never been more inaccessibly locked in a tower as has Paquita in a mansion on the Rue Saint-Lazare. Vowing conquest, Henri de Marsay elaborately plots his seduction of the girl with the golden eyes, but with his sensual triumph comes the bitter revelation that he has a powerful rival for the love of Paquita - the Marquise de San-Real, his own half-sister. A cry of vengeance and the call of blood bring Balzac's taut exploration of the dark side of Parisian society in this novella from his trilogy, History of the Thirteen, to its unexpected if inevitable end.
language: English
title: The Girl With The Golden Eyes
titlecomplete: The Girl With The Golden Eyes
characters: Marquise de San-Réal, Henri de Marsay, Ferragus XXIII, Marquis de Roquenrolles, Paquita Valdez, Lord Dudley
genres: Literature, Classics, Queer, Novels, 19th Century, France, French Literature, Fiction, Novella, Romance
ratings_count: 1840
series: La Comédie Humaine, The Thirteen, Études de mœurs : Scènes de la vie parisienne
publisher: Indypublish.Com