📖 The Girl with the Golden Eyes is part of the History of the Thirteen trilogy written by Honora de Balzac. Balzac was the first writer to write about the social scene France. The introduction tells of urban and economic life in Paris. The story is set is a fine mansion on the Rue Saint-Lazare, where a man becomes obsessed with a beautiful woman. The paradoxical twists in this story come to a conclusion with a wrenching finality.