Short Fiction Balzac, Honoré de: The Vendetta, v1, IMP, 19 Dec 2007.

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Honoré de Balzac:The Vendetta
(La Vendetta)
Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley

A short novella of nearly 25,000 words, set among the Corsican community in Paris during the Napoleonic era and early Restoration.

A young Corsican girl meets a proscribed officer under dramatic circumstances, just following the restoration of Louis XVIII, and they fall in love. Unfortunately, their families are in vendetta…

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