Formação de duas jovens esposas

Abstract

This essay focuses on the building process of the novel Mémoires de deux jeunes mariées, by Honoré de Balzac. A special attention is given to the correspondence between two young aristocratic, French women of the Restauration period, Louise de Chaulieu and Renée de Maucombe, who exchange views about both of their respective affective lives and marriages after years of living together in a convent of Carmelitas, as intern students. The main goal of the writer consists on a discussion about wedding, as it was perceived at that time, and about two perspectives on love – conjugal affection and passion – and its relationships concerning the institution.