 In this letter, Balzac reveals that the young woman had just come to tell him she was pregnant.In 1834, 8 months following Honoré de Balzac's letter to his sister, Maria du Fresnay's daughter Marie-Caroline Du Fresnay was born.In 1839, she appears as the dedicatee of the second edition of Honoré de Balzac's Eugenie Grandet under the pseudonym "Maria", which was her nickname in her social circle.