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The Girl With the Golden Eyes by Honoré de Balzac is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Girl With the Golden Eyes about?

It is in the Tuileries, just outside the Cafe des Feuillants, that Henri de Marsay first catches sight of the girl with the golden eyes and can almost believe in love. Haunted by her shimmery image, returning daily to the Tuileries for another glimpse of her dark beauty, he learns her name - Paquita Valdes - and discovers her address. But a fairy-tale princess has never been more inaccessibly locked in a tower as has Paquita in a mansion on the Rue Saint-Lazare. Vowing conquest, Henri de Marsay elaborately plots his seduction of the girl with the golden eyes, but with his sensual triumph comes the bitter revelation that he has a powerful rival for the love of Paquita - the Marquise de San-Real, his own half-sister. A cry of vengeance and the call of blood bring Balzac's taut exploration of the dark side of Parisian society in this novella from his trilogy, History of the Thirteen, to its unexpected if inevitable end.

Who reads The Girl With the Golden Eyes?

Author

Honoré de Balzac

Publisher

Carroll & Graf Publishers

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9780786705610

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Romance

Rating

3.39 / 5 (15 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13