A Romantic Love Letter written by Hon ore DE Balzac, French writer, to Evelina Hanska.

It is believed that this romantic love letter was written June 1836

Sunday 19th

My beloved angel,

- I am nearly mad about you, as much as one can be mad: I cannot bring together two ideas that you do not interpose yourself between them.

I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.

As for my heart, there you will always be - very much so. I have a delicious sense of you there. But my God, what is to become of me, if you have deprived me of my reason? This is a monomania which, this morning, terrifies me.

I rise up every moment saying to myself, "Come, I am going there!" Then I sit down again, moved by the sense of my obligations. There is a frightful conflict. This is not life. I have never before been like that. You have devoured everything.

I feel foolish and happy as soon as I think of you. I whirl round in a delicious dream in which in one instant I live a thousand years. What a horrible situation!

Overcome with love, feeling love in every pore, living only for love, and seeing oneself consumed by griefs, and caught in a thousand spiders' threads.

O, my darling Eva, you did not know it. I picked up your card. It is there before me, and I talk to you as if you were there. I see you, as I did yesterday, beautiful, astonishingly beautiful.

Yesterday, during the whole evening, I said to myself "she is mine!" Ah! The angels are not as happy in Paradise as I was yesterday!

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Honoré de Balzac (May 20, 1799 – August 18, 1850) was a nineteenth-century French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus, a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Comédie Humane, presents a broad panorama of French life in the years after the fall of Napoléon Bonaparte in 1815. He wrote about reality and details about lives of the poorer people so was to be profoundly influential on many famous writers, including Émile Zola, Charles Dickens, Gustave Flaubert, and Henry James. His first job was as a legal clerk, but he turned his back on the law after becoming disenchanted with its inhumanity. In addition to his career as a writer, Balzac attempted to be a publisher, printer, businessman, critic, and politician. He failed in all of these efforts, but incorporated elements from them in his stories.