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Gambara is a short story by Honoré de Balzac. It is one of the Études philosophiques of La Comédie humaine. The Milanese nobleman count Andrea Marcosini strolls to the Palais-Royal in Paris where he spots in the crowd the extraordinary face of a woman with fiery eyes. She tries to escape him but he chases her as far as a sordid alley behind the Palais-Royal where she disappears. If he is attached to the step of a woman whose costume announced a deep radical ancient inveterate misery who was no fairer than so many others he saw each night at the Opéra it was his eye that was literally spellbound. As soon as he inquires after her he discovers that her name is Marianna and she is married to a composer performer instrument-maker and expert on music theory called Gambara–though his music is only beautiful when he is drunk. Marianna sacrifices herself for him working in humble jobs to pay for their households upkeep for she strongly believes in her husbands misunderstood genius.