Treatise on Elegant Living by Honoré de Balzac, Napoleon Jeffries

Treatise on Elegant Living

Honoré de Balzac, Napoleon Jeffries

84 pages first pub 1830 (editions)

nonfiction essays challenging reflective slow-paced
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Honore de Balzac's 1830 "Treatise on Elegant Living" was a keystone text on dandyism, preceding Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly's "Anatomy of Dandyism" (1845) and Charles Baudelaire's "The Dandy" (in "The Painter of Modern Life," 1863), and marking an im...

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