The Muse of the Department
                        
                     
                                                         
                
                    The Muse of the Department
                                            
                            By Honoré de Balzac
                            
                                3 Jan, 2020                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                        The Muse of the Department involves a young woman who is married to a man 30 years her senior, a rather smallish and once-sickly man, miserly and wanting of an heir. After five years of marriage, there is no heir in sight, and, though in the early da
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                                                The Muse of the Department involves a young woman who is married to a man 30 years her senior, a rather smallish and once-sickly man, miserly and wanting of an heir. After five years of marriage, there is no heir in sight, and, though in the early days of the marriage he was generous, Monsieur de la Baudraye becomes ever more miserly. Less