Treatise on Elegant Living by Honoré de Balzac

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Treatise on Elegant Living

Honoré de Balzac with Napoleon Jeffries (Translator)

84 pages paperback 1830

4 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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