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...uoted through the courtesy of the translator, Dr. Ray Rummers, Chairman, Department of English, Baylor University. LEO... ...small residence of Cloux, near the King’s summer palace at Amboise on the Loire River. Leonardo writes of his boyhood, his mother, his friends, his ... ...I asked these questions yesterday as I watched a flock of ducks along the Loire; I asked the same questions in Florence, in Milan, in Rome. If we as... ...nd shuffled away. “I’m too old,” she said. Cloux As we rode along the Loire, following the river road, Francesco and I talked: “So you received ... ...liar to them: the afternoon was sunny; shafts of light rebounded from the Loire; a pair of squirrels chittered at us; hunt- ers and their dogs passed... ...mind’s secrets...we must unlock them! In his Amboise armory, facing the Loire, Francis showed me his trophies and gear: his new armor from Cadiz, ...

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

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...aring A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Muse of the Department by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publication of the... ...or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Muse of the Department by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring, the Pennsylvania State... ...e University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac The Muse of the Department by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by James Waring Dedication To Mo... ...the poet, have contributed. Your old friend, De Balzac. 4 The Muse of the Department THE MUSE OF THE DEPARTMENT ON THE SKIRTS of Le Berry stands a to... ...E DEPARTMENT ON THE SKIRTS of Le Berry stands a town which, watered by the Loire, infallibly attracts the traveler’s eye. Sancerre crowns the topmost ... ...n of hills, the last of the range that gives variety to the Nivernais. The Loire floods the flats at the foot of these slopes, leaving a yellow alluvi... ...ne of those terrible risings which are also incidental to the Vistula— the Loire of the northern coast. The hill on which the houses of Sancerre are g... ...staves are landed, with all the produce brought from the up- per and lower Loire. At the period when this story begins the suspension bridges at Cosne... ...t aspect; the streets are narrow and paved with pebbles carted up from the Loire. Some old houses are to be seen there. The citadel, a relic of milita...

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...sement and prospectus, by means of which they catch in their rat- trap the departmental rodent commonly called subscriber, sometimes stockholder, occa... ...is correspondence and make short visits to the various market towns of the department. The night before he left Blois for T ours he indited a letter t... ..., when Gaudissart entered the room through a window that looked out on the Loire and the Cher, and lighted one of the gayest dining-rooms of that gay ... ... and the maid-servant used to give him an old journal called the “Indre-et-Loire,” and for seven years he had never yet perceived that he was reading ... ...,—yes, that’s right,” said Margaritis. “Well, Monsieur, I am sent into the departments by a com- pany of bankers and capitalists, who have apprehended... ...itouflet was an old soldier, guilelessly crafty, like the peasantry of the Loire; he never laughed at a jest, but took it with the gravity of a man ac...

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...ort, high-chancellor, king, kaiser, secre- tary of the home or the foreign department, ever shewed such a phasis as Clerk Tallien, Procureur Manuel, f... ...;—’eighty thousand, of all ages, ranks, sexes, fly- ing at once across the Loire,’ with wail borne far on the winds: and, in brief, for years coming, ... ...hantment, temporary conversion into beasthood and hoghood;—the remote Var Department has now sent him hither. A man of heat and haste; defective in u... ...t Con- vention will not so quail and sit, what steps shall it take? Have a Departmental Guard in its pay, answer the Girondins, and Friends of Order! ... ...ing; and even a Decree has been passed of the required tenour. Nay certain Departments, as the Var or Marseilles, in mere expectation and assurance of... ...estless loud-rattling slightly-furnished head of one Jacob Dupont from the Loire country. The Convention is speculating on a plan of National Educatio... ...t, as of rage and lamentation; min- gling with the everlasting moan of the Loire waters there? Nantes Town is sunk in sleep; but Representant Carrier... ... Priests under hatches? They are going to Belle Isle? In the middle of the Loire stream, on signal given, the gabarre is scuttled; she sinks with all ... ...ow, as pale swoln corpses, the victims tumble confusedly seaward along the Loire stream; the tide rolling them back: clouds of ravens darken the River...

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...round is new divided; your old party-coloured Provinces become new uniform Departments, Eighty-three in number;— whereby, as in some sudden shifting o... ...d to be all ‘in permanent vacation, ’— till once the new equal-justice, of Departmental Courts, National Appeal-Court, of elective Justices, Justices ... ...nicipal Ordinances, Royal Proclamations; the whole other or vulgar Placard-department super-added,—or omit- ted from contempt! What unutterable things... ... away wrath. In these rapid days, while France is all getting divided into Departments, Clergy about to be remodelled, Popular Soci- eties rising, and... ...And so, while some honourable Member is discussing, say, the division of a Department, Ushers announce: “His Majesty!” In person, with small suite, en... ...e turning; ancient Atlantic still sends his brine, loud-billowing, up your Loire- stream; brandy shall be hot in the stomach: this is not the Last of ... ...and running! The excommunicatory Priests give new trouble in the Maine and Loire; La Vendee, nor Cathelineau the wool- dealer, has not ceased grumblin... ...n fall, even in Reigns of Terror expressly so-called. The Countries of the Loire, all the Central and South-East regions, start up distracted, ‘simult... ... what Rivers, what Mountain ranges are in it: they will retire behind this Loire-stream, defend these Auvergne stone-labyrinths; save some little sacr...

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... attached himself fanatically to Napoleon, who placed him at the head of a department in the ministry of the interior in 1804, a year before the death... ... was obliged to accept the formal dinners sometimes given to the head of a department in a ministry, paid due attention to the luxurious requirements ... ...raw, the Em- peror will pay all you ask for it.” “His father was head of a department at the ministry of the Interior,” exclaimed Chaudet, struck by a... ...talents, had never himself got on in the posi- tion of assistant-head of a department. “Happily I have only one son; otherwise, with my eighteen hundr... ...o be near Marshal Davoust at Saint-Denis, and was not with the army of the Loire. In consequence of this, and through Davoust’s intercession, his cros... ...r- nest a mortal enmity to the Bourbons, never reported himself at the War department, and even refused opportunities which were offered to him for em... ...t distinguished himself. After the battle of Waterloo Max retreated to the Loire. At the time of the disbandment, Marshal Feltre refused to rec- ogniz... ...tance called half-pay which was allowed to the officers of the army of the Loire. But all Issoudun was roused 103 Balzac at the sight of the brave yo...

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...uresque, a reflection of the splendor still glitters in the current of the Loire. Some of the most striking events of French history have occurred on ... ...l it waters bloomed for a while with the flowering of the Renaissance. The Loire gives a great “style” to a landscape of which the features are not, a... ...ise above this. In- deed, throughout Touraine, it is half the charm of the Loire that you can travel beside it. The great dike which protects it, or, ... ...rtant secular build- ing in the town, with the long bridge which spans the Loire,—the spacious, solid bridge pronounced by Balzac, in “Le Cure de Tour... ...is little tale of “La Grenadiere,” of the view of the opposite side of the Loire as you have it from the square at the end of the Rue Royale,—a square... ... magnificent views. These views are the property of the sub-prefect of the department, who resides at the Cha- teau de Loches, and who has also the en... ...not rain every day (though I believe it was raining everywhere else in the department); other- wise I should not have been able to go to Villeneuve an...

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... Imprisoned in his turn after the fall of Robespierre, the ha- tred of his department doomed him to certain death. “Madame de la Chanterie heard of th... ... “Between Mortagne and Rennes, and even beyond, as far as the banks of the Loire, nocturnal expeditions were orga- nized, which attacked, especially i... ...ng document:— The Indictment Court of Criminal and Special Justice for the Department 77 Balzac of the Orne The attorney-general to the Imperial Cour... ...with consummate care, and connected with a scheme for inciting the Western departments to revolt, has shown itself in certain attempts against the pri... ...rebels, under the name of Pierrot, went from place to place throughout the departments of the West gathering together the elements of rebellion; but h... ... and his murder. 2. Francois Lisieux, called Grand-Fils, refractory of the department of the Mayenne. 79 Balzac 3. Charles Grenier, called Fleur-de-G...

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...n whom Suwarow had inspired hopes of the conquest of France. The 7 Balzac departments of the West, known under the name of La Vendee, Brittany, and a... ...e energy. It provided in the first place for the defence of the threatened departments by giving the responsibility to the loyal and patriotic portion... ...rded: “Independent companies of troops shall be orga- nized in the Western departments.” This impolitic step drove the West as a body into so hostile ... ...es of the depart- ments,—Sarthe, Orne, Mayenne, Ille-et-Vilaine, Morbihan, Loire-Inferieure, and Maine-et-Loire. “These legions,” said the law, “will ... ...e 8 The Chouans impress of circumstances instead of controlling them. The departments of Mayenne and Ille-et-Vilaine were at this time under the comm... ... reload they were out of sight. “What’s the use of decreeing levies in the departments?” said Hulot. “It is only such idiots as the Directory who woul... ...de of pitch in the re- gion between the villages of Amorique and the Upper Loire, and still used beyond Amboise in the Vendomois districts. Barbette d...

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...upon her. V eronique will be the first lady in Limoges, the richest in the department, and she can do what she pleases with Graslin.” Veronique’s educ... ...shall live in that fine palace.” He knew very well that no girl in all the department would have seven hundred and fifty thousand francs as a marriage... ...lice on the track of Tascheron, whom they arrested on the frontiers of the department, in a wood where he was awaiting the pas- sage of a diligence. A... ...new all the details of the criminal trial which, for a fortnight, kept the department, and we may say all France, in a state of excitement. The attitu... ...lowed the case with deep atten- tion. While the more virtuous dames of the department at- tributed the wearing of pumps on a muddy road (an inexpli- c... ...iculture apart) the plateau of La Beauce, which separates the basin of the Loire from that of the Seine, also like those of Touraine and Berry, and ma... ...rance but respected the Limousin, had run their course in the basin of the Loire, and the atmosphere was singularly clear. The sky was so pure that th...

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... on this side the brooks came down in cascades, there they flowed like the Loire on sandy shallows where rafts could not pass on account of the shifti... ...rrified at the Revolution. Gaubertin’s father, the attorney-general of the department, henceforth protected the timid woman. This provincial Fouquier-... ...usted, like those of Gaubertin, to the commissary of wine-merchants of the department in Paris, a certain Leclercq, a native of Soulanges, to whom Gau... ... by other generals and termed the disbanding of the army of 89 Balzac the Loire) could not atone for the crime of having followed the man of the Hund... ...Oise, Seine-et-Marne, the Oise, the Eure-et-Loir, the Lower Seine, and the Loiret are so de- sirable that capital cannot always be invested there at o... ...ere Adolphe Sibilet, whose official duty obliged him to travel through the department, came to see her from time to time. Gaubertin’s exclamation, tho... ... these holes (the topographical, the pro- fessorial, the highway-and-canal departments) are apt to dis- cover, invariably too late, that cleverer men ... ...their candidate the influence of the leading lawyers in the capital of the department, where a royal court held sessions,— such as Counsellor Gendrin,...

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...ion must be discovered; the Alsacien could not go beyond the limits of the department. Eve, turning over everything in the whole printing house, had f... ...ch little beseemed the el- der brother’s benevolence. Jean took the storms department; he would fly into a rage, and propose terms that nobody would t... ...st. The second item is shared between the bailiff and the In- land Revenue Department. The six francs due to the State for providing a piece of stampe... ...ng Lucien’s name with the name of Mme. de Bargeton; and now when the whole department was talk- ing of the lady’s marriage to the new Prefect and her ... ...ut I cannot show myself here. To my astonishment, the hon- ors paid by the departments to a Parisian celebrity awaited me. I am the hero of a banquet,... ... and at Tours it will be no harder than at Poitiers. The quicksands of the Loire never give up their prey—” “No, father,” said Lucien; “I have settled...

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...his employments, was his own butler, enjoyed a sort of fame throughout the department. Madame de Watteville’s fortune was a fine one; while her husban... ..., by the contraction of his cheek, and eye-socket, the chief towns of some departments had their sub-lions, who protested by the smartness of their tr... ...ho is this Tito?” asked Rodolphe. “The Secretary of State to the financial department of the humble shop of the Colonnas, in other words, the son of o... ... candidature. But this did not satisfy Rosalie. She sent the Prefet of the department a letter written with her left hand, signed “A friend to Louis P... ...chances of which the Abbe de Grancey had spoken, she happened to be on the Loire in a steamboat of which the boiler burst. Mademoiselle de Watteville ...

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... the War Office had come to an end of their for- malities. “But Government departments are always so dila- 21 Balzac tory,” the lady added. After din... ...had brought out his defects. But Rastignac came from the South side of the Loire, and had the good qualities of his country- men. He had the impetuous... ...ould appear to be that when the dash and boldness of the South side of the Loire meets, in a southern temperament, with the guile of the North, the ch... ...riend whom I have attached closely to myself, a colonel in the Army of the Loire, who has just been 101 Balzac transferred into the garde royale. He ... ...or their own interests. Passive obedience is as well known in a Government department as in the army itself; and the administrative system silences co... ...rict superintendent—one Gondureau—with whom she had to do. The head of the department received his visitors courteously. There was a little talk, and ... ...ing in a very sensible manner tonight, that you are,” said the head of the department. “Y es, of course, we are serving our country, and we are very h... ...cond Home A Prince of Bohemia Letters of T wo Brides The Muse of the Department The Imaginary Mistress The Middle Classes Cousin Betty 25...

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...to French ears, for it is in these days called by the imperial name of the Department of the Haute Loire. It is to the south-east of Auvergne, and is ... ...s in these days called by the imperial name of the Department of the Haute Loire. It is to the south-east of Auvergne, and is nearly in the centre of ...

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...ike the house itself, of tufa,—a white stone peculiar to the shores of the Loire, and so soft that it lasts hardly more than two centuries. Numberless... ... did everything. She cooked, she made the lye, she washed the linen in the Loire and brought it home on her shoulders; she got up early, she went to b... ...tum. A clear day and the beautiful autumnal sun common to the banks of the Loire was beginning to melt the hoar-frost which the night had laid on thes... ...nd said to her: “Do you want to come for a walk in the fields, down by the Loire? I have something to do there.” Eugenie fetched her straw bonnet, lin... ...nd francs that you pocketed for those that were in your fields down by the Loire, folly?” said Maitre Cruchot, opening his eyes with amazement. “What ... ...rks The Member for Arcis Lupeaulx, Clement Chardin des The Muse of the Department A Bachelor’s Establishment A Distinguished Provincial at Par... ...a Courtesan’s Life Ursule Mirouet Nathan, Madame Raoul The Muse of the Department Lost Illusions A Distinguished Provincial at Paris Scenes ...

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...pointed to the Council of State, and received one of the most disorganized departments of the government to reconstruct. This scion of an old histori-... ...zy, whose shattered health required rest, resigned all his posts, left the department at the head of which the Emperor had placed him, and came to Par... ...campaign of 1815. I was a captain at Mont-Saint-Jean, and I retired to the Loire, after we were all disbanded. Faith! I was disgusted with France; I c... ...es of the Hu- man Comedy. Beaupre, Fanny Modest Mignon The Muse of the Department Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life Bridau, Joseph The Purse A ...

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...n our armies were beginning to yield. On the way he met a young man in the department of Var, who for reasons analogous to his own was in search of gl... ...ed in the blood of Waterloo. The colonel, slightly wounded, retired to the Loire, and left Tours before the disbandment of the army. In the spring of ... ... evenings in calculating the in- comes of the village and the town and the department. It was mere chance that enabled Modeste to escape discovery thr... ...ufferings exacted by your colossus, did not prevent France from losing ten departments acquired under the Revolution,—how can you give in to such exce... ... of the Hu- man Comedy. Beaupre, Fanny A Start in Life The Muse of the Department Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life Bixiou, Jean-Jacques The Purs... ... Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life The Firm of Nucingen The Muse of the Department Cousin Betty The Member for Arcis Beatrix A Man of Busin...

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...e her a domain in place of it, and I shall offer her that of Chaumont- sur-Loire.” Accordingly, the deed of exchange was signed at Blois in 1559. Dian... ...edoc; but Touraine is France; the most national river for Frenchmen is the Loire, which waters Touraine. For this reason we ought not to be sur- prise... ...sed at the great number of historically noble buildings possessed by those departments which have taken the name, or derivations of the name, of the L... ... departments which have taken the name, or derivations of the name, of the Loire. At every step we take in this land of enchantment we discover a new ... ...ace the capital of the kingdom at Tours? There, without great expense, the Loire might have been made accessible for the merchant ser- vice, and also ... ...to Vauban, who wished to build his great palace at Mont Louis, between the Loire and the Cher, perhaps the revolution of 1789 might never have taken p...

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...those au- tumn days which we used to find so beautiful on the banks of the Loire. So I have seen Paris at last! The Place Louis XV . is certainly very... ...e door, which is protected by a pent-house roof, such as no peasant on the Loire would tolerate for his coquettish white stone house, with its blue ro... ... un- known when the Abencerrages arrived as conquerors on the banks of the Loire. My idea had been to live on the income of these huge es- tates, whic... ...al. Before long I hope to see him a mem- ber of the Council General of the Department, through the influence of my family and his mother’s. I have tol... ...feiting my esteem and affection, he must get himself chosen deputy for the department at the coming elections; my family would support his candidature... ...perty which Macumer has bought in Nivernais. It stands on the banks of the Loire, sixty leagues from Paris. Our servants, with the exception of my mai... ...carriage. Then followed a talk like our old talks at Blois, while the same Loire we used to admire called forth our praises, and at half-past seven we... ...me. de Macumer’s followers. Martignac will probably put him into the audit department. But if you won’t tell me why you bury yourself in the country, ... ... am so far a convert as to admit that English women have a talent for this department. T rue, they look upon the child only from the point of view of ...

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..., on that and that only can he take his stand. In the Galleys of the River Loire, whither Knox and the oth- ers, after their Castle of St. Andrew’s wa... ...ied, sick: how can any limb of it be whole? Genu- ine Acting ceases in all departments of the world’s work; dex- terous Similitude of Acting begins. T... ... And if this be the fact even in matters of doctrine, how much more in all departments of practice! He that cannot withal keep his mind to himself can... ...re of Silence. The noble silent men, scattered here and there, each in his department; silently thinking, silently work- ing; whom no Morning Newspape...

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... enemy was M. de Chavigny: he was secretary of state, and had also the war department. Either from stupidity or malice he had left all the towns in Pi... ...a, was on very bad terms with Barbezieux, secre- tary of state for the war department. Both were in good favour with the King; both high in power, bot... ...ent of all the Court, at seeing a man charged with the war and the finance department sent on such an errand. He aston- ished no less the army when he... ...d to grow so irksome that Chamillart, who had both the finance and the war departments under his control, was unable to stand against the increased tr... ...ricts and vil- lages. France had also its share of these catastrophes. The Loire overflowed in a manner hitherto unheard of, broke down the embankment... ...have not yet escaped from. Nature, wiser than man, had placed rocks in the Loire above Roanne, which prevented navigation to that place, the principal... ...d of the rocks. Orleans, Blois, T ours, in one word, all the places on the Loire, opposed this. They represented the danger of inundations; they were ... ...e quantity of corn that the King had bought, and that had spoiled upon the Loire, was thrown into the water in consequence, did not shake this opinion... ...ring of plate, and avowed that he repented of it. The inun- dations of the Loire, which happened at the same time, and caused the utmost disorder, did...

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...iet indiffer- ence of a landowner whose territorial value is quoted in the department. His face, tanned by the Touraine sun, was less intellectual tha... ...meadow lands of his domain by taking in a part of the alluvial soil of the Loire without getting into difficulties with the State. This clever proceed... ...e T ragedy Listomere, Baronne de Cesar Birotteau The Muse of the Department To return to the Electronic Classics Series, go to http://www.hn...

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...d, examined the traveller with kindly and pitying eyes. “You are not of this department?” she asked. The Arethusa told her he was English. “Ah!” she s... ... a short stage through the green plain upon the Berry side, to Chatillon-sur-Loire. It was the first day of the shoot- ing; and the air rang with the ... ...o await the Cigarette’s arrival, in sublime inac- tion, by the margin of the Loire. Fired by these ideas, he pushed the more rapidly forward, and came... .... A Scotch advocate! Do you then pretend to support yourself by that in this department? 72 Across the Plains The Arethusa modestly disclaimed the pr... ...La Fere; last, but not least, he is pretty certain to remember Chatillon-sur-Loire. At the town entry, the gendarme culled him like a wayside 76 Acro...

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...families possessing great estates, in short, the highest personages in the department, do not go to their houses; social intercourse between them is c... ...es to the country; others were occasionally ill; a few travelled about the department on business; but certain of the faithful came every night (unles... ...with the position he occupied among the aristocratic constellations of the department made him the most brilliant ornament of her salon. In her inmost... ...mon’s face and bosom, which, released from the corset, overflowed like the Loire in flood. The poor woman opened her eyes, saw du Bousquier, and gave ... ...to Prebaudet, which made that domain one of the most con- siderable in the department, for the estates of the Abbe de Sponde also adjoined it. Du Bous... ...so adjoined it. Du Bousquier thus passed for one of the richest men of the department. This able man, the constant candidate of the liberals, missing ...

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...her occasion for you, and you may retire; what now remains to do is in the department of the minister of war.” “Fortunately, sire,” said M. de Blacas,... ...tead of referring him to the governors of the prison or the prefect of the department. But Morrel, disappointed in his expectations of exciting fear, ... ...t, like Milan and Florence, Piombino has become the capital of some French department.” Alexandre Dumas 105 “Ah,” said the inspector, “you have not t... ...hem execrable. Besides, that does not con- cern the home but the financial department. Address yourself to M. Humann, section of the indirect contribu... ...e I do not include Corsica — you will not find, then, in these eighty-five departments a single hill on which there is not a telegraph, or a grotto in... ...my, was slightly wounded at Waterloo, and retired with the army beyond the Loire.” “But that is the history of the Hundred Days, M. Bertuccio,” said t... ... for my brother, a soldier of the em- pire, returning from the army of the Loire, with his uniform and his epaulets, there was everything to apprehend...

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...ft of wood for the fire, or for a new roof-tree, he found himself face to face with a whole department, from the Grand Mas- ter of the Woods and Water... ... WITH A DONKEY IN THE CEVENNES.’ LE MONASTIER is the chief place of a hilly canton in Haute Loire, the ancient Velay. As the name betokens, the town i... ...des in cliffy valleys; and one of them, a few miles from Monastier, bears the great name of Loire. The mean level of the country is a little more than... ... Gazeille, where it waters the common of Monastier and thence down- wards till it joins the Loire; a place to hear birds singing; a place for lovers t... ...f all the swearers that I ever heard, commend me to an old lady in Gondet, a village of the Loire. I was making a sketch, and her curse was not yet en...

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...gone, and his morale suffered from it. The life of the poor prince was, then, very dull. After his little morning hawking-party on the banks of the Be... ...just introduced his head through the doorway, took advantage of the moment. “Why am I to be disturbed?” said Gaston, helping himse lf to a thick slice... ...njoy good health, monseigneur.” “His nieces accompany him, no doubt?” “No, monseigneur, his eminence has ordered the Mesde- moiselles de Mancini to se... ...ers with great gilt chains, were drawn from the cupboards; an army of the poor were en- gaged in sweeping the courts and washing the stone fronts, whi... ...nd his uncle, hastened to return to them. He came up just at the moment Mazarin terminated by saying: “Mary, as well as her sisters, has just set off ... ...should ask me, — ‘Who is M. Boulingrin?’ I should reply: ‘He is the archi- tect of the house.’ Well! M. Getard is the Boulingrin of M. Fouquet. But he...

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...e winters at Nantes, and the sum- mers at their estate on the banks of the Loire below l’Indret. She was supposed to be ready to leave her fortune and... ...et for himself. The Comtesse de Montcornet told him of a young lady in the department of the Orne, a Mademoiselle Beatrix-Maximilienne-Rose de Castera... ... No longer have they self-love, pettiness, or vanity; their love—it is the Loire at its mouth, it is vast, it is swelled by all the illusions, all the... ...azaire, and from which is seen Paimboeuf and the magnificent Mouths of the Loire as they struggle with the sea, he found Camille and the marquise wavi... ... Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life The Firm of Nucingen The Muse of the Department Cousin Betty The Member for Arcis A Man of Business Gaud... ...ent Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life A Daughter of Eve The Muse of the Department Cousin Betty A Prince of Bohemia A Man of Business The M... ...Country T own Gaudissart II Ronceret, Madame Fabien du The Muse of the Department Cousin Betty The Unconscious Humorists Simeuse, Admiral de ... ... Another Study of Woman A Daughter of Eve Honorine The Muse of the Department T railles, Comte Maxime de Cesar Birotteau Father Goriot G...

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...t him in Bel- gium he was not present at the disbanding of the Army of the Loire, but the King’s government declined to recognise promotion made durin... ... the same as ever in the King. The bad brother who voted so wrongly in his department of the Constituent As- sembly was sure to compound with the Libe...

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...ook time, for the Missis sippi is not a French brook, like the Seine, the Loire, and those other rivulets, but is a real river nearly a mile wide. Th... ...im sometimes: A bill becomes a law when the President vetoes it. The three departments of the government is the President rules the world, the governo... ...hich Bacon excelled all men was a knowledge of the mutual relations of all departments of knowledge. In a letter written when he was only thirty one, ...

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...der, are similar to those that I have heard described at Chambord.” At this moment one of those heavy wagons, drawn by bullocks, which carry the wood ... ...to Athos.” Day was now advanced; all the noises that had ceased the night before reawakened, one after the other. The bird on the branch, the dog in h... ..., sir!” cried Olivain, “what are you doing? Good God!” Raoul was directing his horse toward the unhappy man in danger. This was, in fact, a custom fam... ... you to-day and to- morrow will fight against you, the popular following di- rected by the coadjutor , President Blancmesnil, and Coun- cillor Brousse...

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...nt, owning a house, and being respected by the respectable citizens of his department of St. Antoine, was chosen to represent it. Thus he felt him- se... ...her pocket. By this time we had coasted along the moat till we came to the Loire, where a whole swarm of boatmen, honest fellows in red caps and strip...

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...w 347 The Chaplet of Pearls how to sew up a gash, or cure an argue.’ This department suited Eustacie much better than the stitching, and best of all ... ... of 1575 he joined that detachment of Guise’s army which hovered about the Loire, and kept watch on the Huguenot cities and provinces of Western Franc...

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...And so, while some honourable Member is discussing, say, the division of a Department, Ushers announce: “His Majesty!” In person, with small suite, en... ...ted National Guards, so many in the hundred, from each of the Eighty-three Departments of France. Likewise from all Na- val and Military King’s Forces... ...penses to be borne by the Deputing District; of all which let District and Department take thought, and elect fit men,—whom the Paris brethren will fl... ...ne or thereby, and come marching through the City, with their Eighty-three Department Banners, and blessings not loud but deep; comes National Assembl... ...turn- ing; ancient Atlantic still sends his brine, loud-billowing, up your Loire-stream; brandy shall be hot in the stomach: this is not the Last of t... ...and running! The excommunicatory Priests give new trouble in the Maine and Loire; La Vendee, nor Cathelineau the wool-dealer, has not ceased grumbling... ...error expressly 318 The French Revolution so-called. The Countries of the Loire, all the Central and South- East regions, start up distracted, ‘simul... ... what Rivers, what Mountain ranges are in it: they will retire behind this Loire-stream, defend these Auvergne stone-laby- rinths; save some little sa... ...es;—’eighty thousand, of all ages, ranks, sexes, flying at once across the Loire,’ with wail borne far on the winds: and, in brief, for years coming, ...

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... The traveller of the present day, who wanders by the banks of the silvery Loire, and climbs the steep on which the magnificent edifice stood, can sca... ...wers. The long lines of battlemented walls spread down the mountain to the Loire, and were defended by thousands of steel-clad serving-men. Four hundr... ...which his friend distinguished himself as usual in the eating and drinking department. Squintoff, the Rowski bow- man, declined to attend; so great wa... ...ithout any effect) pamphlets among the low ale-houses and peasantry of the department of the Upper Rhine (in which he lurks); and the Police have an e... ... significant.” “The Dukes of Joinville and Nemours left the palace for the departments of the Loire and Upper Rhine, where they will take the command ... ... Dukes of Joinville and Nemours left the palace for the departments of the Loire and Upper Rhine, where they will take the command of the troops. The ... ...ars from the following remarks of the Debats:— “The courier from the Rhine department,” says the Debats, “brings us the following astounding Proclamat... ...“His Royal Highness the Duke of Nemours is gone into the department of the Loire, where he will speedily put an end to the troubles in the disturbed d... ...stant putting down of the disturbances in the departments of the Rhine and Loire, and it is arranged that on the capture of the pretenders, they shall...

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...in the jail- ers’ registers at the St. Pelagie nor at La Force! Government departments, cafes, libraries, lists of prefects’ names, news- paper office... ...zed the sale of my property, only retaining an island in the middle of the Loire where my mother was buried. Perhaps argu- ments and evasions, philoso... ... is how it happened. “A speculator came, offering to buy the island in the Loire belonging to me, where my mother lay buried. I closed with him. When ... ...x, hillside villages, roads with their fringes of queenly poplars; and the Loire itself, at last, with its wide sheets of water sparkling like diamond... ...te form that rose elusively out of the mists above the broad waters of the Loire, like some child of the sun and the river, or some freak of air and c... ...cond Home A Prince of Bohemia Letters of T wo Brides The Muse of the Department The Imaginary Mistress The Middle Classes Cousin Betty T... ...s, Duc de A Bachelor’s Establishment Colonel Chabert The Muse of the Department The Thirteen Jealousies of a Country T own The Peasantry ...

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...drews. “How are you makin’ out?” “Fine,” said Fuselli. “I’m in the optical department here.” “Where the hell’s that?” “Right here.” Fuselli pointed va... ...y rolling uplands, and then at Blois down into the haze of richness of the Loire … . D’you know Vendome? I came by a funny little town from Vendome to... ...y feet … . And what wonderful cold baths I’ve had on the sand banks of the Loire … . No, after a while the rhythm of legs all being made the same leng... ...g it. He went to the window and ran his hand through his hair. Outside the Loire rambled in great loops towards the blue distance, sil- very reach upo...

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...g tse, and the Pearl, I see where the Seine flows, and where the Danube, the Loire, the Rhone, and the Guadalquiver flow, I see the windings of the Vo... ...ssage and read nothing about it there, Nothing in the reports from the State department or T reasury department, or in the daily papers or weekly pape...

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... ture for an historian than for a dramatist. He was formed to excel in all departments of literature, and the admirable lucidity of style and sound- n... ...ed against Swiss; German against German, to determine, on the banks of the Loire and the Seine, the succession of the French crown. The Dane crosses t...