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."
End of Project Gutenberg's Women in the Life of Balzac, Juanita H. Floyd