d'aiglemont

Updated: May 23, 2025

He was one colonel among many, an efficient orderly staff-officer, as good a man as you could find for a dangerous mission, as unfit as well could be for an important command. D'Aiglemont was looked upon as a dashing soldier such as the Emperor liked, the kind of man whom his mess usually calls "a good fellow."

Honoré de Balzac - A Woman of Thirty

At four o'clock dear Moina drives in the Bois. In the evening dear Moina goes to a ball or to the Bouffes. Still, it is certainly true that Mme. d'Aiglemont has the privilege of seeing her dear daughter while she dresses, and again at dinner, if dear Moina happens to dine with her mother.

Honoré de Balzac - A Woman of Thirty

M. d'Aiglemont slept on peacefully at her side; his wife's hot dropping tears did not waken him. But next morning Julie could be gay. She made a great effort to look happy, to hide, not her melancholy, as heretofore, but an insuperable loathing. From that day she no longer regarded herself as a blameless wife. Had she not been false to herself?

Honoré de Balzac - A Woman of Thirty

For the first, and perhaps for the last time in her life, the Marquise d'Aiglemont was in very truth suffering. And, indeed, would it not be an error to suppose that the same sentiment can be reproduced in us? Once develop the power to feel, is it not always there in the depths of our nature?

Honoré de Balzac - A Woman of Thirty

And yet, starving wretches, compelled to respect the laws of property, are not less to be pitied than women whose natural instincts and sensitiveness are turned to so many avenues of pain. A few days after that scene of which the secret lay buried in the midnight couch, d'Aiglemont introduced Lord Grenville.

Honoré de Balzac - A Woman of Thirty

Marshal Soult was repelling an English invasion of Bearn; and d'Aiglemont, the bearer of the Emperor's orders to the Marshal, seized the opportunity of taking his wife as far as Tours to leave her with an elderly relative of his own, far away from the dangers threatening Paris.

Honoré de Balzac - A Woman of Thirty

Although the Marquise d'Aiglemont took up her position upon this neutral ground during the first interview, she knew how to preserve a high womanly dignity. The sorrows of which she never spoke seemed to hang over her assumed gaiety like a light cloud obscuring the sun.

Honoré de Balzac - A Woman of Thirty

Mme. d'Aiglemont shut her eyes and bent her head at the words, with a very faint, almost inaudible sigh. She looked up and out into space, as if she felt the common overmastering impulse to appeal to God at the great crises of our lives; then she looked at her daughter, and her eyes were full of awful majesty and the expression of profound sorrow.

Honoré de Balzac - A Woman of Thirty

Involuntarily Julie shuddered, something in the experienced coquette's look and tone seemed to say that Mme. de Listomere-Landon's knowledge of her husband's character went perhaps deeper than his wife's. Mme. d'Aiglemont, in dismay, took refuge in this transparent dissimulation, ready to her hand, the first resource of an artless unhappiness.

Honoré de Balzac - A Woman of Thirty

They had climbed up through the vineyards, and now they turned to sit on one of the long white stones, quarried out of the caves in the hillside; but Julie stood awhile gazing out over the landscape. "What a beautiful country!" she cried. "Let us put up a tent and live here. Victor, Victor, do come up here!" M. d'Aiglemont answered by a halloo from below.

Honoré de Balzac - A Woman of Thirty