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| Balzac - from Wikipedia |
No - it isn't the person in the above picture - that's Balzac and he wasn't at all exotic.
In his novel Le Lys dans la Vallée (The Lily of the Valley), Honoré de Balzac creates a character called Lady Arabella Dudley. Lady Arabella is a beautiful, fiery aristocratic seductress with designs on the novel's hero. What more exotic origins could Balzac have given her than a Lancashire birthplace?
"I was born in Lancashire, a country where women die for love. Know you, and give you up? I will yield you to none, not even to Death, for I should die with you."
Le Lys dans la Vallée is part of La Comédie humaine, his vast collection of interlinked novels.
A true Lancashire lass, then!
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