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Albert Savarus

Albert Savarus

by Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850

BookID: 1898

Language:English

Translator:Marriage, Ellen, 1865-1946

Reading Level:Reading ease score: 67.6 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read.

Copyright Status:Public domain in the USA.

France -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- FictionFrench fiction -- Translations into English

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"Albert Savarus" by Honoré de Balzac is a novel published in 1842. In provincial Besançon, young Rosalie de Watteville becomes obsessed with a mysterious lawyer who has recently settled in town. When she discovers his secret past through a story he writes—involving a forbidden love with an Italian princess—her jealousy drives her to shocking acts of deception. Through intercepted letters and forged correspondence, Rosalie orchestrates a devastating intervention that destroys lives and seals her own tragic fate. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Class:PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese

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