Can we repeat to you that since I had your dear portrait, I had her in front by working, and never have entered person in the place where I work , unless the divine image was withdrawn, and that since I had my eyes Wierzchownia have ...
Thereafter they kept up an ardent correspondence, interrupted by occasional vacations spent together in different parts of Europe. In 1841 her husband died, but Madame Hanska obstinately refused to marry Balzac despite his earnest pleas. ... Somewhat adrift in revolutionary Paris in 1848, Balzac went to live with Madame Hanska on her estate at Wierzchownia, in the Ukraine; he finally married her at Berdichev in March 1850. (Chekhov's line, 'Balzac was married at ...
Thereafter they kept up an ardent correspondence, interrupted by occasional bvacations/b spent together in different parts of Europe. In 1841 her husband died, but Madame Hanska obstinately refused to marry Balzac despite his earnest pleas. Only when he fell gravely b...../b On 14 March 1850, with Balzac's health in serious decline, they drove from her estate in bWierzchownia/b (village of Verkhivnia) to a church in Berdyczów (city of Berdychiv, today in Ukraine) and were married. ...