equal your almost maternal affection for me, would last beyond the
limits prescribed for human feeling. This sublime privilege of
prolonging the life in our hearts by the life of our works would
be, if there were ever a certainty in this respect, a recompense
for all the labor it costs those whose ambition is such. Yet again
I say: May God grant it!

"DE BALZAC."

Balzac once thought of buying from Madame Delannoy a house that was
left her by her friend, M. Ferraud, but which she could not keep. He
felt that this would be advantageous to them both, but the plan was
never carried out. Besides their financial and literary relations,
their social relations were most cordial. He speaks of accompanying
her and her daughter to the Italian opera twice during the absence of
Madame Visconti.

In 1842, Balzac dedicated _La Maison-du-Chat-qui-pelote_ to
Mademoiselle Marie de Montbeau, the daughter of Camille Delannoy, a
friend of his sister, and the granddaughter of Madame Delannoy.


Another friend of Balzac's family was Madame de Pommereul. In the fall
of 1828 after his serious financial loss, Balzac went to visit Baron
and Madame de Pommereul in Brittany, where he obtained the material
for _Les Chouans_, and became familiar with the chateau de Fougere. To
please Madame de Pommereul, Balzac changed the name of his book from
_Le Gars_ to _Les Chouans_, after temporarily calling it _Le Dernier
Chouan_.