Thirty-year-old woman

The novel that made Balzac famous and popularized the expression 'Balzac age'.
On the one hand, it is an elegant and tender narrative about love in its highest manifestations. On the other hand, it is a requiem for married life. Julie is an extraordinary, independent, and emotionally expressive woman. Due to her husband's indifference and coldness, she says goodbye to her youthful illusions and becomes disillusioned with marriage. After all, 'it is not the sorrows themselves that destroy us, but the lost hopes'. And what choice to make when on one side of the scale there is burdensome legalized love, and on the other - criminal passion?
Every woman who has experienced and understood everything has the highest right to happiness. Hundreds of thousands of women found a doctor in Balzac because he forgives any of their wrong steps, as long as those steps are taken out of love.