Honoré de Balzac 
The Country Doctor 

The Country Doctor is a novel by Honoré de Balzac, published in 1833 as Le Médecin de campagne. The novel was part of Balzac’s monumental fictional undertaking, La Comédie humaine (The Human Comedy).

Honoré de Balzac (20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus.

Translated by Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell