What metaphors are used in La Grande Breteche by Honore de Balzac?

The human passion for hearing, as well as for telling, tales is wonderfully expressed through Bianchon's focus upon Rosalie, the maid at the inn whom he suspects can reveal to him, "the heart of this solemn story, this drama which had killed three people." His desire to hear the end of the tale is metaphorically expressed through the desire he focuses upon Rosalie. He states that, "Rosalie became in my eyes the most interesting being in Vendome." His desire to learn "the whole history of la Grande Bretèche" is so strong that he will go so far as to "make love to Rosalie if it proves necessary" to "achieve this end." Bianchon's statement that the "last chapter" in the "romance" of the story of la Grande Bretèche is "contained" in Rosalie equates the human passion for stories with the passion of a man set on seducing an attractive young woman: "It was not a case for ordinary lovemaking; this girl contained the last chapter of a romance, and from that moment all my attentions were devoted to Rosalie." As representative of the "romance" of the story, Bianchon finds that Rosalie for him "was soon possessed of every charm that desire can lend to a woman in whatever rank of life."