Treatise on Elegant Living by Honoré de Balzac

Treatise on Elegant Living

Wakefield Handbooks

Honoré de Balzac with Napoleon Jeffries (Translator)

84 pages first pub 1830 (editions)

nonfiction essays challenging reflective slow-paced
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Honor de Balzac's 1830 Treatise on Elegant Living was a keystone text on dandyism, preceding Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly's Anatomy of Dandyism (1845) and Charles Baudelaire's "The Dandy" (in The Painter of Modern Life, 1863), and marking an importan...

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