Short Fiction Balzac, Honoré de: Maître Cornelius, v1, IMP, 19 Dec 2007.

[Patricia]

Honoré de Balzac: Maître Cornelius
Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley

A story of about 21,600 words, set in 15th-century France.

King Louis XI’s daughter is married to a jealous, abusive husband. She loves a young noblemen, who takes a post in the house of the King’s jeweller, the miserly Maître Cornelius, in order to be near her.
But there is a jewel theft on the night the young man arrives. The King turns detective with surprising results.

I have restored accents and italics, have corrected a couple of errors and added a TOC.

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