How old is the “lady of Balzac’s age”?  You will be very surprised when you find out!

How old is the “lady of Balzac’s age”? You will be very surprised when you find out!

We’ve all heard this phrase many times, and moreover, we’re used to thinking of it as a fancy replacement for the phrase “age.” Do you know what kind of woman the French writer Honoré de Balzac actually had in mind? He called out a very specific number of years that she lived!

How old is the “lady of Balzac’s age”?  You will be very surprised when you find out!

We say “a woman of Balzac’s age”, in reference to her maturity, her life experience. But do you know exactly how old was the heroine of the novel whose title made this expression common?

How old is a woman of Balzac’s age?
The voice

QUESTION 1 OF 1

The heroine of Balzac’s book, which gave life to this expression, was…

30 years

40 years

50 years

55 years

60 years

Photo: Eastern News

Source: The Voice Mag

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