es_ he knew. As has been observed, he knew women of
Russia, Poland, Germany, Austria, England, Italy and Spain, and had
traveled in most of these countries; hence one is not surprised at the
large number of foreign women who have appeared in his work. Among the
most noted of these are Lady Brandon (_La Grenadiere_); Lady Dudley
(_Le Lys dans la Vallee_); Madame Varese (_Massimilla Doni_); la
Duchesse de Rhetore (_Albert Savarus_), who was in reality Madame
Hanska, although presented as being Italian; Madame Claes (_La
Recherche de l'Absolu_), of Spanish origin though born in Brussels;
Paquita Valdes (_La Fille aux Yeux d'Or_); and the Corsican Madame
Luigi Porta (_La Vendetta_).

In regard to Balzac's various women friends, J. W. Sherer has very
appropriately observed: "And the man was worthy of them: the student
of his work knows what a head he had; the student of his life, what a
heart."

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