PAZ

BY

HONORE DE BALZAC



Translated by

Katharine Prescott Wormeley



DEDICATION

Dedicated to the Comtesse Clara Maffei.




PAZ
(LA FAUSSE MAITRESSE)



I

In September, 1835, one of the richest heiresses of the faubourg
Saint-Germain, Mademoiselle du Rouvre, the only daughter of the