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...Excerpt: PART I. Mme. De Bargeton and Lucien de Rubempre had left Angouleme behind, and were traveling together upon the road to Paris. Not one of the party who made that journey alluded to it afterwards; but it may be believed that an infatuated ...

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...A Distinguished Provincial at Paris (Lost Illusions Part II) by Honore de Balzac Translated by Ellen Marriage A Penn State Electronic Class... ...A Distinguished Provincial at Paris (Lost Illusions Part II) by Honore de Balzac Translated by Ellen Marriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Ser... ...A Distinguished Provincial at Paris (Lost Illusions Part II) by Honore de Balzac Translated by Ellen Marriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Series... ...on A Distinguished Provincial at Paris (Lost Illusions Part II) by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ... A Distinguished Provincial at Paris (Lost Illusions Part II) by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ... it in 1840. Mutton cutlets and fillet of beef at Flicoteaux’s repre- sent black game and fillet of sturgeon at Very’s; they are not on the regular bi... ... in the flames of heady punch, or by the generous warmth of a small cup of black coffee glori- fied by a dash of something hotter and stronger. Lucien... ...seemed to me that a volume of sonnets would be something quite new. Victor Hugo has appropriated the old, Canalis writes lighter verse, Beranger has m... ...ve no idea, gentlemen, of the amount of harm that Byron, Lamartine, Victor Hugo, Casimir Delavigne, Canalis, and Beranger have done by their success. ...

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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... ...lectronic Classics Series Publication The Lesser Bourgeoisie by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katherine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...ors of which, placed opposite to each other, light it. This room, paved in black and white marble, is especially noticeable for a ceiling of beams for... ...”; he played billiards to perfection; he knew how to cut out likenesses in black paper, and his friend Colleville coached him so well that he was able... ...h dignity; he has kept himself a father in their eyes; he insists on being honored in his home, just as he himself honors power and his superiors. He ... ..., which you seem to fear, has no more value for us than a stanza of Victor Hugo. Therefore, let them talk! Carry your head high!” “But we shall still ... ...ith a very important mem- ber of the government, Comte Martial de la Roche-Hugon. He stopped in the courtyard when he reached it, as if to examine the...

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...Excerpt: Volumes, almost libraries, have been written about Balzac; and perhaps of very few writers, putting aside the three or four greatest of all, is it so difficult to select one or a few short phrases which will in any way denote them, much more sum them up. Yet the five words qu...

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...The Human Comedy: Introductions & Appendix by Honoré de Balzac A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Human Co... ...The Human Comedy: Introductions & Appendix by Honoré de Balzac A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Human Comed... ...s Series Publication The Human Comedy: Introductions & Appendix by Honoré de Balzac is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Por... ...eries Publication The Human Comedy: Introductions & Appendix by Honoré de Balzac is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portab... ...ennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. Contents HONORE DE BALZAC ............................................................. ... & Appendix The Human Comedy: Introductions & Appendix by Honoré de Balzac HONORE DE BALZAC “Sans genie, je suis flambe!” VOLUMES, almost libraries, h... .... Balzac began with an odd but not unintelligible compound, something like Hugo’s, of Napoleonism and Royalism. In 1824, when he was still in the shad... ...ts for some of the most interesting figures of the Comedie. He knew Victor Hugo, but certainly not at this time intimately; for as late as 1839 the le... ...Tours Un Menage de Garcon A Bachelor’s Establishment The T wo Brothers The Black Sheep 36 The Human Comedy: Introductions & Appendix Les Parisiens en...

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

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

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

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...Marriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Two Poets by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...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... ...or the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Two Poets by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec- ... ...the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Two Poets by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec- tro... ...ore de Balzac T ranslated by Ellen Marriage Dedication T o Monsieur Victor Hugo, It was your birthright to be, like a Rafael or a Pitt, a great poet a... ...ing with the full de- velopment of his whole frame. With his thick crop of black hair, his fleshy, high-colored, swarthy face, supported by a thick ne... ...than a little revolution. Who was responsible for it? Lamartine and Victor Hugo, Casimir Delavigne and Canalis, Beranger and Chateaubriand. Davrigny, ... ...at lady. Mme. de Bargeton, following a new fashion, wore a coif of slashed black velvet, a head-dress that recalls memories of mediaeval legend to a y...