İki Yeni Gelinin Anıları

'I think nothing can compare to the pleasures of love. You will find me strange, but having lived in this sun and this weather ten times in ten months, without losing anything from my wreath, not a single flower, and preserving all my illusions, when I was thirty years old, I caught myself wanting to die in the midst of all the splendor of life, in the midst of all the roses of love, in the bosom of pleasures.'

'Oh, Louise, no lover's caresses can replace the little pink baby hands that wander softly and cling to life. One sees what the milk turns into: it turns into meat, it blooms at the tips of those tiny fingers that resemble flowers, taking on the delicateness of flowers; It grows as thin transparent nails, turns into hair and moves with the feet. You become that baby's whole world; 'Just like it's your world.'

A lover passionate about love, a romantic Louise; Renée, a sensible mother with inexhaustible devotion... These two beautiful women are the heroes of this novel. Honoré de Balzac, who becomes a woman for these two people twice throughout the novel, makes two school friends separated by life talk for years. Memoirs of Two New Brides is a masterpiece among novels written in the form of letters.