A Woman of Thirty
Honoré de Balzac
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A Woman of Thirty is unusual in that the protagonist is thirty years of age in just one of the six vignettes that make up the novel. As the novel opens, Julie is a young girl in her late teenage years. She and her father are going to see Napoleon and his army as they embark on the campaign that ended with his defeat at Leipzig. Julie is in love with a colonel, which is an unpleasant surprise to her father. He warns her of the man’s many weaknesses and tells her she’s not ready for married life—and definitely not married life with him.
Like most young women of that age, she doesn’t listen, and quickly finds herself in a marriage with a man who’s not what she imagined. The remaining five vignettes drop in on Julie at various points in her life, showing how she’s coping with the realities of her situation: with her husband, her children, and the various others who enter their lives.
The story of Julie d’Aiglemont was a longer project for Balzac than most of the other stories of the Human Comedy: it was written across a span of sixteen years.
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