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