thereby preserving his friendship with Adam. It is not quite clear whether Adam had had an affair with Malaga which Paz had to keep quiet. Characters Count Adam Laginski Clementine Thaddee Paz Malaga (Marguerite Turquet) Footnotes External links La Fausse Maîtresse at Project Gutenberg. The Human Comedy by Honoré de Balzac hosted by Carnegie Mellon University. La Fausse Maîtresse, audio version . Books of La Comédie humaine 1843 French novels Novels by Honoré de Balzac