Honore De Balzac

The Girl with the Golden Eyes Honore De Balzac

A narcissistic young nobleman despairs of ever finding a woman beautiful enough to deserve his perfect beauty until one day on the streets of Paris, he discovers a young beauty with golden eyes. He knows he must seduce this young woman, who has been brought to Paris by her mother to be sold to a mysterious Marquess as a love slave. He does seduce her and thinks he has met the only woman who can satisfy his decadent lust until in the height of passion she screams another lover's name. He decides to murder her, but the Marquess, who is his sister, discovers she has been unfaithful to her an stabs her to death.