Balzac is not really my cup of coffee. But this epistolary novel has many rewards. Renée de Maucombe and Louise de Chaulieu leave their convent school and trade letters as their lives diverge. Letters from others appear as well. This passage is from a letter by Renée that describes what she calls the joys and terrors of motherhood. Well, or not seems eerily apt today.
[Armand is Renée’s son, named for Armande-Louise-Marie de Chaulieu.]
Tuesday, December 28, 2021
Well, or not
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