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The Lily of the Valley is an 1835 novel about love and society by French novelist and playwright Honore de Balzac (1799-1850).
It concerns the affection - emotionally vibrant but never consummated - between Felix de Vandenesse and Henriette de Mortsauf.
It is part of his series of novels known as "The Human Comedy" (La Comédie humaine), which parodies and depicts French society in the period of the Restoration and the July Monarchy (1815-1848).

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