[Gutenberg 6403] • Petty Troubles of Married Life, Second Part

PREFACE PART II

Balzac states that in Part II he will give the wife’s point of view. This should be interesting as he made it all the way through “The Physiology of Marriage” and half through “Petty Troubles of Married Life” without once providing a female point of view.

HUSBANDS DURING THE SECOND MONTH

Caroline and a boarding-school friend Stephanie talk on a balcony at a ball with a male friend listening unknown to them. They have both recently married, Stephanie supposedly to an ideal gentleman Armand. ([from a blog on Balzac](http://balzacbooks.wordpress.com/tag/petty-troubles-of-married-life/))