STUDY OF A WOMAN

BY

HONORE DE BALZAC



Translated by
Katharine Prescott Wormeley




DEDICATION

To the Marquis Jean-Charles di Negro.




STUDY OF A WOMAN




The Marquise de Listomere is one of those young women who have been
brought up in the spirit of the Restoration. She has principles, she
fasts, takes the sacrament, and goes to balls and operas very
elegantly dressed; her confessor permits her to combine the mundane