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Excerpt: The Recruit by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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...Excerpt: The autumn of the year 1803 was one of the finest in the early part of that period of the present century which we now call ?Empire.? Rain had refreshed the earth during the month of October, so that the trees were still green and leafy in November. The French people were be...

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...An Historical Mystery by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electroni... ...An Historical Mystery by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic C... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication An Historical Mystery by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penns... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. An Historical Mystery by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Pre... ...the life of animals is, without reflection, the outcome of instinct. Since 1793 he had trimmed his red beard to the shape of a fan. Even if he had not... ...park of Gondreville, one of the finest estates in 6 An Historical Mystery France, and by far the finest in the departments of the Aube; it boasts of ... ...efore Louis-Philippe turned that Chateau into an asylum for the glories of France. The pavilion is divided inside by an old staircase of worm-eaten wo... ...power of the bailiff of Gondreville. Since 1789, but more especially since 1793, Michu had been well- nigh master of the property. The terror he inspi...

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Excerpt: Unconsious Comedians by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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...Excerpt: Dear Baron, you have taken so warm an interest in my long, vast ?History of French Manners in the Nineteenth Century,? you have given me so much encouragement to persevere with my work, that you have given me a right to associate your name with some portion of it. Are you...

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...The Collection of Antiquities by Honore de Balzac Translated by Ellen Marriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Ser... ...The Collection of Antiquities by Honore de Balzac Translated by Ellen Marriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Series... ...ronic Classics Series Publication The Collection of Antiquities by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Collection of Antiquities by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen... ...eet, in the middle of a town, in one of the least important prefectures in France, but the name of the street and the name of the town must be suppres... ... at court; one cadet of the house became an admiral, a duke, and a peer of France, and died without issue. Never would the Marquis d’Esgrignon of the ... ...picked up the furni- ture at sales of the wreckage of old chateaux between 1793 and 1795; so that there were Louis Quatorze consoles, tables, clock-ca... ... felicitously named the Collection of Antiquities. But when the victors of 1793 became the vanquished in their turn, the nickname given at first in je...

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...Excerpt: The Comte De Fontaine, head of one of the oldest families in Poitou, had served the Bourbon cause with intelligence and bravery during the war in La Vendee against the Republic. After having escaped all the dangers which threatened the...

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Excerpt: The Village Rector by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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Excerpt: Sons of the Soil by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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Excerpt: As a testimony to the affection of his brother-in-law?

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The Rabourdin household in Paris, where men of thought and study bear a certain likeness to one another, living as they do in a common centre, you must have met with several resembling Monsieur Rabourdin, whose acquaintance we are about to make at a...

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Excerpt: A Start in Life by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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...Excerpt: An Ambuscade. Early in the year VIII., at the beginning of Vendemiaire, or, to conform to our own calendar, towards the close of September, 1799, a hundred or so of peasants and a large number of citizens, who had left Fougeres in the morning on...

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...A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Chouans by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penns... ...enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Chouans by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Chouans by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Worm... ... the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Chouans by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...h reached to the hips only, a garment peculiar to the peasantry of western France. Beneath this jacket, which was worn open, a waistcoat of the same l... ...o the secrets of the civil discords which were then agitating the whole of France could easily have distinguished the few in- dividuals on whose fidel... ...epre- sented a pair of compasses,—which had lately superseded the level of 1793. “It means that the troops—that’s us—are to march firm; don’t you see ... ...ought to say devoted enough,—to remain in France in spite of the decree of 1793, which banished his order. He is the firebrand of the war in these reg...

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Excerpt: The Two Brothers by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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Excerpt: The Muse of the Department by Honore de Balzac, translated by James Waring.

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...Excerpt: All elections begin with a bustle before beginning to describe an election in the provinces, it is proper to state that the town of Arcis-sur-Aube was not the theatre of the events here related. The arrondissement of Arcis votes at Bar-sur-Aube, which is forty miles from Arcis; consequently there is...

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...Excerpt: The malady of the age. On a fine evening in the month of September, 1836, a man about thirty years of age was leaning on the parapet of that quay from which a spectator can look up the Seine from the Jardin des Plantes to Notre-Dame, and down, along the vast perspec...

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Excerpt: Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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...Excerpt: In the year 1800, toward the close of October, a foreigner, accompanied by a woman and a little girl, was standing for a long time in front of the palace of the Tuileries, near the ruins of a house recently pulled down, at th...

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...Excerpt: Note. It is somewhat remarkable that Balzac, dealing as he did with traits of character and the minute and daily circumstances of life, has never been accused of representing actual persons in the two or three thousand portraits which he painted of human nature....

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Excerpt: Scenes from a Courtesan?s Life by Honore de Balzac, translated by James Waring.

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...Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by James Waring A Penn State Electronic Classics Seri... ...Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by James Waring A Penn State Electronic Classics Series ... ...onic Classics Series Publication Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publication of the Pennsylvania State U... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Jame... ...it had Madame Tallien! In these days there is certainly a throne to let in France which is for her who can fill it. We among us could make a queen. I ... ... beauty which were found severally in per- fection in each one of them. In France it is extremely rare, not to say impossible, to meet with the thirty... ...e old man took no offence, for in his opinion the nobility had perished in 1793; and besides, the land of les Canquoelles did not belong to him; he wa... ...is help in decapitating the king. Then he made his son his deputy when, in 1793, two guillotines were in constant work—one at the Barriere du Trone, a...

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...Cousin Betty by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by James Waring A Penn State Electronic Classics Series ... ... Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Cousin Betty by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publication of the Pennsylvania State U... ...nn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Cousin Betty by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Cousin Betty by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring, the Penn... ...the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Cousin Betty by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec- tr... ...t in this “Human Comedy” the close and constant alliance between Italy and France, to which Bandello did honor in the same way in the sixteenth centur... ...e King could do no more for him unless by making him minister or a peer of France. From 1818 till 1823, having no official occupation, Baron Hulot had... ...n short, bourgeois and penurious. Since then, 1830 has crowned the work of 1793. In France, henceforth, there will be great names, but no great houses...

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...re to the author before he can foresee what reception the public, our great present judge, will accord to it. Feeling almost certain of your sympathy in my pleasure, I dedicate the book to you. Ought it not to belong to you as the tithe formerly belonged to the Church in memory of God, who makes all things bud and fruit in the fields and in the intellect?...

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...The Lesser Bourgeoisie (The Middle Classes) by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electroni... ...The Lesser Bourgeoisie (The Middle Classes) by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic C... ...e Electronic Classics Series Publication The Lesser Bourgeoisie by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katherine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penns... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Lesser Bourgeoisie by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katherine Pr... ...nce, which was then in the rue Vivienne, and also not far from the Bank of France, then, and now, in the rue de la Vrilliere. There she bravely gave h... ...t the firms of Thelusson and of Keller to enter the service of the Bank of France. Lemprun, now the head of that service, enjoyed the respect and cons... ...all compact with the republican spirit. The republican spirit to him means 1793, rioting, the Terror, and agrarian law. The democratic element is the ... ...insane! Well, as things are going now it looks as if we might have another 1793.” This history, invented on the spot, made such an impres- sion on Cel...

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...Excerpt: Is it not a necessity to explain to a public curious to know everything, how I came to be sufficiently learned in the law to carry on the business of my little world? And in so doing, am I not bound to put on record the memory of the amiable and intelligent man who, meeting the Scribe (another clerkamateur) at a ball, said, ?Just give...

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...An Episode Under the T error by Honore de Balzac T ranslated by Clara Bell and others A Penn State Electronic Clas... ...An Episode Under the T error by Honore de Balzac T ranslated by Clara Bell and others A Penn State Electronic Classic... ...ctronic Classics Series Publication An Episode under the Terror by Honore de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and others is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. An Episode under the Terror by Honore de Balzac, trans. Clara B... ...the writer? De Balzac. AN EPISODE UNDER THE TERROR ON THE 22ND OF JANUARY, 1793, towards eight o’clock in the evening, an old lady came down the steep... ...e, was further increased by the whole extent of the Ter- ror beneath which France was groaning in those days; what was more, the old lady so far had m... ...ith- out a coffin, and putting up prayers to God for the soul of a King of France. No devotion could be purer than this. It was a wonderful act of fai... ...as the stranger of the expiatory mass on the night of the 22nd of January, 1793; and a kind of cult of him sprung up among them. Their one hope was in...

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Excerpt: Two Poets by Honore de Balzac, translated by Ellen Marriage.

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...e A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Two Poets by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ... Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Two Poets by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ... tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Two Poets by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, the Penns... ...or the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Two Poets by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec- ... ...he hundred and fifty-two compartments of the cases. In the disastrous year 1793, Sechard, being fifty years old and a married man, escaped the great R... ...h a to-do over that damned Englishman’s invention—a foreigner, an enemy of France who wants to help the ironfounders to a fortune. Oh! you wanted Stan... ...or of the family of Rubempre, saved as by a miracle from the guillotine in 1793. He had gained time by declaring that she was pregnant, a lie told wit... ...-eaten roof covered with the curved pantiles in common use in the South of France. The decrepit casements were fitted with the heavy, unwieldy shut- t...

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...shed by the number 36, without too much deliberation. ?Your hat, sir, if you please?? a thin, querulous voice called out. A little old man, crouching in the darkness behind a railing, suddenly rose and exhibited his features, carved after a mean design....

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...The Magic Skin by Honore de Balzac Translated by Ellen Marriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Serie... ...enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Magic Skin by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ... State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Magic Skin by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Magic Skin by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, the ... ...e file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Magic Skin by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, the Pennsylvania State University, Electr... ...e the scaffold awaited them red- dened with all the blood spilt here since 1793. There is something great and terrible about suicide. Most people’s do... ...of the monarchy, has felt the necessity of mystifying the worthy people of France with a few new words and old ideas, like philosophers of every schoo... ...as an ingenuousness in his tones that set these writers, the hope of young France, in a roar. “So far our blasphemies have been uttered over our cups;...