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...The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electroni... ...The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic C... ... Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of th... ...tate Electronic Classics Series Publication The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penns... ...e Electronic Classics Series Publication The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...oldiers of Napoleon became almost to a man enamoured of the constitutional system—Colonel Giguet was, during the Restoration, the natural president of... ...n, an ephemeral effort of the Chamber of Deputies to realize the threat of parliamentary government,—a threat a la Cromwell, which without a Cromwell ... ...ly end, under a prince “the enemy of fraud,” in the triumph of the present system, by which the Chambers and the ministers are like the wooden puppets... ...produce your candidates and weigh their merits—in adopting, as I said, the parliamentary and constitutional—forms—of the—electoral Chamber.” “Yes, yes...

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Excerpt: Modeste Mignon by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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

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...Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electroni... ...Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic C... ...ic Classics Series Publication Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penns... ...Classics Series Publication Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylv... ... AT HIS APOGEE I DURING WINTER NIGHTS noise never ceases in the Rue Saint- Honore except for a short interval. Kitchen-gardeners carry- ing their prod... ...ysiologists have long wondered at this phe- nomenon, which overturns their systems and upsets all theo- ries; it is in fact a thunderbolt working with... ...few steps from the shop-door, roused his feeling heart and made him hate a system of government which was ca- pable of shedding blood without repugnan... ... in a gray woollen garment, breakfasted in his chimney-corner and read the parliamentary debates in the “Constitutionnel” or the “Journal du Commerce.... ... the following speech, which he divided by gestures and pauses in his most parliamentary manner. “No—hair—can be made—to grow! Hair cannot be dyed wit...

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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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...The Ball at Sceaux by Honore de Balzac Translated by Clara Bell A Penn State Electronic Classics Series ... ...The Ball at Sceaux by Honore de Balzac Translated by Clara Bell A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pub... ...A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Ball at Sceaux by Honore de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Ball at Sceaux by Honore de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication The Ball at Sceaux by Honore de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...ot fall into if things are to go on like this. Their cursed constitutional system is the worst possible govern- ment, and can never suit France. Louis... ... bril- liant manner of repeating political anecdotes, and the political or parliamentary tittle-tattle —if the expression may pass—which at that time ... ...al good fortune excited no envy. In those early days of the constitutional system, few persons had very precise ideas of the peaceful domain of the ci... ...ous banquets by which the ministers of that time secured the vote of their parliamentary recruits. The Honorable Deputy was consequently pointed at as...

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... is perhaps shared by a few others, a few insignificant phrases are exchanged, as: ?Do you think of going away soon to La Crampade?? ?How well Madame de Portenduere sang!? ?Who is that little woman with such a load of diamonds?? Or, after firing off some smart epigrams, which give transient pleasure, and leave wounds that rankle long, the groups thin out, the mere lookers ...

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...Another Study of Woman by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell A Penn State Electro... ...Another Study of Woman by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell A Penn State Electronic... ...e Electronic Classics Series Publication Another Study of Woman by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell is a publica- tion of the P... ...lectronic Classics Series Publication Another Study of Woman by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell is a publica- tion of the Penn... ...ch of us the imperceptible move- ment which newspaper writers represent in Parliamentary reports by the words: great sensation. “Cured of my cold, and... ...m Laginski. “She is a modern product, a deplorable triumph of the elective system as applied to the fair sex,” said the Minister. “Every revolution ha... ... citizen quarters, between No. 30 and No. 130 of the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honore. During the winter, she haunts the terrace of the Feuillants, but no... ...o the south by the road, to the north by the gardens of the Faubourg Saint-Honore. Never is this pretty variety of woman to be seen in the hyperborean... ...pocrisy and the delightful frankness of the eigh- teenth century—a bastard system, symptomatic of an age in which nothing that grows up is at all like...

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...Catherine dé Medici by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katherine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electroni... ...Catherine dé Medici by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katherine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic C... ...tate Electronic Classics Series Publication Catherine dé Medici by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katherine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penns... ...e Electronic Classics Series Publication Catherine dé Medici by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katherine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...n Egyp- tian stone, as if to obliterate regicide and offer a symbol of the system of materialistic policy which governs us; it was answered at the Car... ...ulation of them, and a slow approval of reforms that were necessary to the system of monarchy. The first act of Henri II. was to give his confidence t... ... will also serve to explain the importance of the Sieur Lecamus, a furrier honored with the custom of two queens, Catherine dé Medici and Mary Stuart,... ...d, though not until after his death. Such was the origin of the celebrated parliamentary house of Lecamus. Tallemant des Reaux is in error when he sta... ...her house,— an old absurdity which is ever new. T o her thinking, even the parliamentary judges were of small account; she wished for titled persons i...

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...Excerpt: One of the few drawing-rooms where, under the Restoration, the Archbishop of Besancon was sometimes to be seen, was that of the Baronne de Watteville, to whom he was particularly attached on account of her religious sentiments. A word as to this lady, the most important lady of Besancon....

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

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

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

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...the commandant of the city appointed, military administration began. The place assumed a mongrel aspect. Though all things were organized on a French system, the Spaniards were left free to follow ?in petto? their national tastes....

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Pro and con monsieur de manerville, the father, was a worthy Norman gentleman, well known to the Marechael de Richelieu, who married him to one of the richest heiresses of Bordeaux in the days when the old duke reigned in Guienne as governor. The...

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...Ferragus Chief of the Devorants by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electroni... ...Ferragus Chief of the Devorants by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic C... ...ic Classics Series Publication Ferragus, Chief of the Devorants by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penns... ...Classics Series Publication Ferragus, Chief of the Devorants by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...s epitomized; by night it is a dream of Greece. The rue Traversiere-Saint- Honore—is not that a villainous street? Look at the wretched little houses ... ... kind, not even notes of exclamation,—a fact which tends to undervalue the system of notes and dashes by which modern authors have endeav- ored to dep... ...s, for most of the time he manages to evade what Monsieur le vidame calls “parliamentary investigations.” If monsieur wishes, he could be disposed of ... ...decide hic et nunc; I should require a report.” A report is to the present system of administration what limbo or hades is to Christianity. Jacquet kn...