A Marriage Settlement
by Honoré de Balzac
202 pages~3 hrs
“Before the 'I do,' there is the 'how much?'”
In the high-stakes world of 19th-century French society, love is a business and marriage is a battlefield of legal fine print. This sharp-witted masterpiece by Balzac exposes the cold financial reality behind romantic unions as two families clash over the true cost of a wedding.
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