La Grande Breteche
by Honoré de Balzac, Clara Bell (Translator) & Ellen Marriage (Translator)
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- Language: English
- Content type: Fiction
"La Grande Breteche" by Honoré de Balzac is a short story published in 1831. Dr. Horace Bianchon encounters a mysterious abandoned manor near Vendôme, forbidden to all visitors for fifty years. Through accounts from locals, he learns of a tragic love affair that ended in horror when a jealous husband discovered his wife's Spanish lover and sealed him alive behind a wall. The traumatic events drove the wife to decree her home remain eternally closed—a monument to secrets, betrayal, and vengeance. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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