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... Waring A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Exiles by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and James Waring is a publication of th... ... A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Exiles by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and James Waring is a publication of the Penn-... ...Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Exiles by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and James Waring is a publication of the Penn- sy... ...t or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Exiles by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and James Waring, the Pennsylvania Stat... ...r the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Exiles by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and James Waring, the Pennsylvania State Uni- ... ...he file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Exiles by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and James Waring, the Pennsylvania State Uni- ver... ...y The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac The Exiles by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Clara Bell and James W... ...ate University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac The Exiles by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Clara Bell and James Waring Almae Sorori IN... ...versity is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac The Exiles by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Clara Bell and James Waring Almae Sorori IN THE YE...
Excerpt: Almae Sorori. In the year 1308 few houses were yet standing on the Island formed by the alluvium and sand deposited by the Seine above the Cite, behind the Church of Notre-Dame. The first man who was so bold as to build on this strand, then liable to frequent floods, was a constable of the watch of the City of Paris, who had been able to do some service to their Reverences the Chapter of the Cathedral; and in return the Bishop leased him twenty-five perches of land, with exemptions from all feudal dues or taxes on the buildings he might erect....
...The Country Doctor by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell A Penn State Electro... ...The Country Doctor by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell A Penn State Electronic... ...A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Country Doctor by Honoré de Balzad, trans. Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell is a publication of ... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Country Doctor by Honoré de Balzad, trans. Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell is a publication of the Pen... ... the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Country Doctor by Honoré de Balzad, trans. Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell, the Pennsylvania St... ...le as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Country Doctor by Honoré de Balzad, trans. Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell, the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...y The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac The Country Doctor by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Ellen Marriage... ...ersity is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac The Country Doctor by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell “For a wounde... ...horse. He held himself firm and erect in the saddle like an old cavalry 5 Balzac officer. Even if his black cravat and doeskin gloves, the pistols th...
Excerpt: Chapter 1. The countryside and the man on a lovely spring morning in the year 1829, a man of fifty or thereabouts was wending his way on horseback along the mountain road that leads to a large village near the Grande Chartreuse. This village is the market town of a populous canton that lies within the limits of a valley of some considerable length. The melting of the snows had filled the boulder- strewn bed of the torrent (often dry) that flows through this valley, which is closely shut in between two parallel mountain barriers, above which the peaks of Savoy and of Dauphine tower on every side....
...Droll Stories Volume II: The Second T en T ales by Honore de Balzac Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine A Penn State ... ...Droll Stories Volume II: The Second T en T ales by Honore de Balzac Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine A Penn State Ele... ...lectronic Classics Series Publication Droll Stories: Volume Two by Honore de Balzac is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Por... ...tronic Classics Series Publication Droll Stories: Volume Two by Honore de Balzac is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portab... ...n electronic transmission, in any way. Droll Stories: Volume Two by Honore de Balzac, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, J... ...lectronic transmission, in any way. Droll Stories: Volume Two by Honore de Balzac, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim ...
Prologue: Certain persons have reproached the Author for knowing no more about the language of the olden times than hares do of telling stories. Formerly these people would have been vilified, called cannibals, churls, and sycophants, and Gomorrah would have been hinted at as their natal place. But the Author consents to spare them the flowery epithets of ancient criticism; he contents himself with wishing not to be in their skin, for he would be disgusted with himself, and esteem himself the vilest of scribblers thus to calumniate a poor little book which is not in the style of any spoil-paper of these times....
Contents THE THREE CLERKS OF ST. NICHOLAS ................................................................................. 8 THE CONTINENCE OF KING FRANCIS THE FIRST............................................................ 19 THE MERRY TATTLE OF THE NUNS OF POISSY ................................................................ 24 HOW THE CHATEAU D?AZAY CAME TO BE BUILT............................................................ 37 THE FALSE COURTESAN ........................................................................................................... 50 THE DANGER OF BEING TOO INNOCENT............................................................................ 60 THE DEAR NIGHT OF LOVE ..................................................................................................... 69 THE SERMON OF THE MERRY VICAR OF MEUDON......................................................... 78 THE SUCCUBUS ............................................................................................................................ 91 DESPAIR IN LOVE .....................................................................................
...Christ in Flanders by Honoré de Balzac Translated by Ellen Marriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Ser... ...Christ in Flanders by Honoré de Balzac Translated by Ellen Marriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Series... ...A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Christ in Flanders by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication Christ in Flanders by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication Christ in Flanders by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ... the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Christ in Flanders by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, the Pennsylvania State University,... ...le as an electronic transmission, in any way. Christ in Flanders by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, the Pennsylvania State University, Electr... ...as an electronic transmission, in any way. Christ in Flanders by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, the Pennsylvania State University, Electroni... ...ersity is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac Christ in Flanders by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Ellen Marriage Dedication To Marcelline Des...
Excerpt: At a dimly remote period in the history of Brabant, communication between the Island of Cadzand and the Flemish coast was kept up by a boat which carried passengers from one shore to the other. Middelburg, the chief town in the island, destined to become so famous in the annals of Protestantism, at that time only numbered some two or three hundred hearths; and the prosperous town of Ostend was an obscure haven, a straggling village where pirates dwelt in security among the fishermen and the few poor merchants who lived in the place....
...mes Waring A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Gambara by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and James Waring is a publication of th... ...ing A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Gambara by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and James Waring is a publication of the Penn-... ... A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Gambara by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and James Waring is a publication of the Penn- sy... ...ment or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Gambara by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and James Waring, the Pennsylvania Stat... ... for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Gambara by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and James Waring, the Pennsylvania State Uni- ... ...r the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Gambara by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and James Waring, the Pennsylvania State Uni- ver... ...y The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac Gambara by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Clara Bell and James Wari... ... State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac Gambara by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Clara Bell and James Waring Dedication To M... ...University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac Gambara by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Clara Bell and James Waring Dedication To Monsieur...
...in our memory,--whence our eyes commanded a view of Paris from the heights of Belleville to those of Belleville, from Montmartre to the triumphal Arc de l?Etoile, that one morning, refreshed by tea, amid the myriad suggestions that shoot up and die like rockets from your sparkling flow of talk, lavish of ideas, you tossed to my pen a figure worthy of Hoffmann,--that casket...
...The T wo Brothers by Honore de Balzac T ranlated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic... ...The T wo Brothers by Honore de Balzac T ranlated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Cl... ...n State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Two Brothers by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penns... ...tate Electronic Classics Series Publication The Two Brothers by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Two Brothers by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...e as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Two Brothers by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State Universi...
Excerpt: The Two Brothers by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.
...Colonel Chabert by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell A Penn State Electro... ...Colonel Chabert by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell A Penn State Electronic... ...ll A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Colonel Chabert by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell is a publication of ... ...nn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Colonel Chabert by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell is a publication of the Pen... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication Colonel Chabert by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell is a publication of the Pennsy... ...for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Colonel Chabert by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell, the Pennsylvania St... ... file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Colonel Chabert by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell, the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...le as an electronic transmission, in any way. Colonel Chabert by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell, the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...niversity is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac Colonel Chabert by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell Dedication To...
Excerpt: Colonel Chabert. ?Hullo! There is that old Box-coat again!? This exclamation was made by a lawyer?s clerk of the class called in French offices a gutter-jumper--a messenger in fact--who at this moment was eating a piece of dry bread with a hearty appetite. He pulled off a morsel of crumb to make into a bullet, and fired it gleefully through the open pane of the window against which he was leaning. The pellet, well aimed, rebounded almost as high as the window, after hitting the hat of a stranger who was crossing the courtyard of a house in the Rue Vivienne, where dwelt Maitre Derville, attorney-at-law....
...The Elixir of Life by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Clara Bell and James Waring A Penn State Electroni... ...The Elixir of Life by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Clara Bell and James Waring A Penn State Electronic C... ...A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Elixir of Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and James Waring is a publication of th... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Elixir of Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and James Waring is a publication of the Penns... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication The Elixir of Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and James Waring is a publication of the Pennsylv... ... the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Elixir of Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and James Waring, the Pennsylvania Stat... ...le as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Elixir of Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and James Waring, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Elixir of Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and James Waring, the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...ersity is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac The Elixir of Life by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Clara Bell and James Waring To the Reader A...
Excerpt: At the very outset of the writer?s literary career, a friend, long since dead, gave him the subject of this Study. Later on he found the same story in a collection published about the beginning of the present century. To the best of his belief, it is some stray fancy of the brain of Hoffmann of Berlin; probably it appeared in some German almanac, and was omitted in the published editions of his collected works. The Comedie Humaine is sufficiently rich in original creations for the author to own to this innocent piece of plagiarism; when, like the worthy La Fontaine, he has told unwittingly, and after his own fashion, a tale already related by another....
...Letters of T wo Brides by Honoré de Balzac Translated by R. S. Scott A Penn State Electronic Classics... ...Letters of T wo Brides by Honoré de Balzac Translated by R. S. Scott A Penn State Electronic Classics Series... ...Letters of T wo Brides by Honoré de Balzac Translated by R. S. Scott A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Letters of Two Brides by Honoré de Balzac, trans. R. S. Scott is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication Letters of Two Brides by Honoré de Balzac, trans. R. S. Scott is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State ... ...Electronic Classics Series Publication Letters of Two Brides by Honoré de Balzac, trans. R. S. Scott is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State Uni... ...file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. Letters of Two Brides by Honoré de Balzac, trans. R. S. Scott, the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity, ... ... an electronic trans- mission, in any way. Letters of Two Brides by Honoré de Balzac, trans. R. S. Scott, the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity, Electro... ... electronic trans- mission, in any way. Letters of Two Brides by Honoré de Balzac, trans. R. S. Scott, the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity, Electronic...
Excerpt: Your name, dear George, while casting a reflected radiance on my book, can gain no new glory from this page. And yet it is neither self-interest nor diffidence which has led me to place it there, but only the wish that it should bear witness to the solid friendship between us, which has survived our wanderings and separations, and triumphed over the busy malice of the world....
...Modeste Mignon by Honore de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic C... ...enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Modeste Mignon by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penns... ... State Electronic Classics Series Publication Modeste Mignon by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...e file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Modeste Mignon by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...ile as an electronic transmission, in any way. Modeste Mignon by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...ity is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac Modeste Mignon by Honore de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley DEDICA DEDICA DEDICA D...
Excerpt: Modeste Mignon by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.
...The Girl with the Golden Eyes by Honoré de Balzac Translated by Ellen Marriage A Penn State Electronic Class... ...The Girl with the Golden Eyes by Honoré de Balzac Translated by Ellen Marriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Ser... ...The Girl with the Golden Eyes by Honoré de Balzac Translated by Ellen Marriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Series... ...e Electronic Classics Series Publication The Girl with the Golden Eyes by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...ronic Classics Series Publication The Girl with the Golden Eyes by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...ic Classics Series Publication The Girl with the Golden Eyes by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...s an electronic transmission, in any way. The Girl with the Golden Eyes by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, the Pennsylvania State University,... ...ectronic transmission, in any way. The Girl with the Golden Eyes by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, the Pennsylvania State University, Electr... ...ronic transmission, in any way. The Girl with the Golden Eyes by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, the Pennsylvania State University, Electroni...
Excerpt: One of those sights in which most horror is to be encountered is, surely, the general aspect of the Parisian populace-- a people fearful to behold, gaunt, yellow, tawny. Is not Paris a vast field in perpetual turmoil from a storm of interests beneath which are whirled along a crop of human beings, who are, more often than not, reaped by death, only to be born again as pinched as ever, men whose twisted and contorted faces give out at every pore the instinct, the desire, the poisons with which their brains are pregnant; not faces so much as masks; masks of weakness, masks of strength, masks of misery, masks of joy, masks of hypocrisy; all alike worn and stamped with the indelible signs of a panting cupidity? What is it they want? Gold or pleasure?...
...scott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Paz by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of th... ...ormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Paz by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penns... ...eley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Paz by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Paz by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania Stat... ...t or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Paz by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...r for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Paz by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...y The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac Paz by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley D... ...ania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac Paz by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley Dedication Dedi... ...ate University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac Paz by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley Dedication Dedicated t...
Excerpt: Paz by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.
...rriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Message by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Message by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Message by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ... or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Message by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, the Pennsylvania State University,... ... the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Message by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec- ... ...e file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Message by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec- tro... ...y The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac The Message by Honoré de Balzac T ranslation by Ellen Marriage To M.... ...te University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac The Message by Honoré de Balzac T ranslation by Ellen Marriage To M. le Marquis Damaso Par... ...ersity is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac The Message by Honoré de Balzac T ranslation by Ellen Marriage To M. le Marquis Damaso Pareto I H...
Excerpt: To M. le Marquis Damaso Pareto I have always longed to tell a simple and true story, which should strike terror into two young lovers, and drive them to take refuge each in the other?s heart, as two children cling together at the sight of a snake by a woodside. At the risk of spoiling my story and of being taken for a coxcomb, I state my intention at the outset....
...The Marriage Contract by Honore de Balzac Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic... ...The Marriage Contract by Honore de Balzac Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Cl... ...Penn State Electronic Classic Series Publication The Marriage Contract by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publica- tion of ... ...ate Electronic Classic Series Publication The Marriage Contract by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publica- tion of the Pen... ... Electronic Classic Series Publication The Marriage Contract by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publica- tion of the Pennsy... ...e file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Marriage Contract by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Penn- sylvania St... ...as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Marriage Contract by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Penn- sylvania State Uni... ...an electronic transmission, in any way. The Marriage Contract by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Penn- sylvania State Univer... ...ity is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac The Marriage Contract by Honoré de Balzac Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley Dedication To Ro...
...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...
...Eve and David by Honoré de Balzac Translated by Ellen Marriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Series... ...iage A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Eve and David by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Eve and David by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...n State Electronic Classics Series Publication Eve and David by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...r for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Eve and David by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, the Pennsylvania State University,... ...he file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Eve and David by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, the Pennsylvania State University, Electr... ...file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Eve and David by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, the Pennsylvania State University, Electroni... ... University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac Eve and David by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Ellen Marriage NOTE: Eve and David is part ... ...sity is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac Eve and David by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Ellen Marriage NOTE: Eve and David is part three o...
Excerpt: Lucien had gone to Paris; and David Sechard, with the courage and intelligence of the ox which painters give the Evangelist for accompanying symbol, set himself to make the large fortune for which he had wished that evening down by the Charente, when he sat with Eve by the weir, and she gave him her hand and her heart. He wanted to make the money quickly, and less for himself than for Eve?s sake and Lucien?s....
...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... ...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... ...le as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Ball at Sceaux by Honore de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic... ...as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Ball at Sceaux by Honore de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Cl...
...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...
...Gaudissart II by Honore de Balzac T ranslated by Clara Bell and others A Penn State Electronic Classic... ...Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Gaudissart II by Honore de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and others is a publication of the Pennsylva- ... ...n State Electronic Classics Series Publication Gaudissart II by Honore de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and others is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia... ...he file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Gaudissart II by Honore de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and others, the Pennsylvania State Univer- sit... ...file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Gaudissart II by Honore de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and others, the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity, ... ...sity is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac Gaudissart II by Honore de Balzac Translated by Clara Bell and others Dedication To Madame la Princ...
Excerpt: To know how to sell, to be able to sell, and to sell. People generally do not suspect how much of the stateliness of Paris is due to these three aspects of the same problem. The brilliant display of shops as rich as the salons of the noblesse before 1789; the splendors of cafes which eclipse, and easily eclipse, the Versailles of our day; the shop-window illusions, new every morning, nightly destroyed; the grace and elegance of the young men that come in contact with fair customers; the piquant faces and costumes of young damsels, who cannot fail to attract the masculine customer; and (and this especially of late) the length, the vast spaces, the Babylonish luxury of galleries where shopkeepers acquire a monopoly of the trade in various articles by bringing them all together,-- all this is as nothing. Everything, so far, has been done to appeal to a single sense, and that the most exacting and jaded human faculty, a faculty developed ever since the days of the Roman Empire, until, in our own times, thanks to the efforts of the most fastidious civilization the world has yet seen, its demands are grown limitless. That faculty...
...The Brotherhood of Consolation by Honore de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electroni... ...The Brotherhood of Consolation by Honore de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic C... ...onic Classics Series Publication The Brotherhood of Consolation by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penns... ...c Classics Series Publication The Brotherhood of Consolation by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylv... ... tronic transmission, in any way. The Brotherhood of Consolation by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...onic transmission, in any way. The Brotherhood of Consolation by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State Universi...
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 perspective of the river, to the Louvre. There is not another point of view to compare with it in the capital of ideas. We feel ourselves on the quarter-deck, as it were, of a gigantic vessel. We dream of Paris from the days of the Romans to those of the Franks, from the Normans to the Burgundians, the Middle-Ages, the Valois, Henri IV., Louis XIV., Napoleon, and Louis-Philippe. Vestiges are before us of all those sovereignties, in monuments that recall their memory....
...Cousin Betty by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by James Waring A Penn State Electronic Classics Series ... ...aring A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Cousin Betty by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publication of the Pennsylvania ... ... 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... ...or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Cousin Betty by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring, the Pennsylvania State University, E... ...the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Cousin Betty by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec- tr... ... file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Cousin Betty by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec- troni... ...e University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac Cousin Betty by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by James Waring Dedication To Don Michele Ange... ...rsity is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac Cousin Betty by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by James Waring Dedication To Don Michele Angelo Caje...
Excerpt: It is neither to the Roman Prince, nor to the representative of the illustrious house of Cajetani, which has given more than one Pope to the Christian Church, that I dedicate this short portion of a long history; it is to the learned commentator of Dante....
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Excerpt: Chapter 1 Exposition. Notwithstanding the discipline which Marechal Suchet had introduced into his army corps, he was unable to prevent a short period of trouble and disorder at the taking of Tarragona. According to certain fair-minded military men, this intoxication of victory bore a striking resemblance to pillage, though the marechal promptly suppressed it. Order being re-established, each regiment quartered in its respective lines, and 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: The incident recorded in this sketch took place towards the end of the month of November, 1809, the moment when Napoleon?s fugitive empire attained the apogee of its splendor. The trumpet-blasts of Wagram were still sounding an echo in the heart of the Austrian monarchy. Peace was being signed between France and the Coalition. Kings and princes came to perform their orbits, like stars, round Napoleon, who gave himself the pleasure of dragging all Europe in his train--a magnificent experiment in the power he afterwards displayed at Dresden. Never, as contemporaries tell us, did Paris see entertainments more superb than those which preceded and followed the sovereign?s marriage with an Austrian archduchess. Never, in the most splendid days of the Monarchy, had so many crowned heads thronged the shores of the Seine, never had the French aristocracy been so rich or so splendid. The diamonds lavishly scattered over the women?s dresses, and the gold and silver embroidery on the uniforms contrasted so strongly with the penury of the Republic, that the wealth of the globe seemed to be rolling through the drawing-rooms of Paris. Int...
...The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley ... ...The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State El... ...The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic C... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a pu... ...c Classics Series Publication The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of th... ... Series Publication The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...le as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pe... ...onic transmission, in any way. The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania Stat... ...mission, in any way. The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State Universi...
...Excerpt: After the disasters of the revolution of July, which destroyed so many aristocratic fortunes dependent on the court, Madame la Princesse de Cadignan was clever enough to attribute to political events the total ruin she had caused by her own extravagance. The prince left France with the royal family, and never returned to it, leaving the princess in Paris, prot...
...CTED FROM THE ABBEYS OF TOURAINE VOLUME III: THE THIRD TEN TALES by HONORE DE BALZAC THIRD TEN TALES A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publicati... ...D FROM THE ABBEYS OF TOURAINE VOLUME III: THE THIRD TEN TALES by HONORE DE BALZAC THIRD TEN TALES A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication ... ...d from the Abbeys of Touraine: Volume Three: The Third Ten Tales by Honore de Balzac is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Porta... ...rom the Abbeys of Touraine: Volume Three: The Third Ten Tales by Honore de Balzac is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable... ...d from the Abbeys of Touraine: Volume Three: The Third Ten Tales by Honore de Balzac, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, J... ...rom the Abbeys of Touraine: Volume Three: The Third Ten Tales by Honore de Balzac, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim ...
Excerpt: Certain persons have interrogated the author as to why there was such a demand for these tales that no year passes without his giving an installment of them, and why he has lately taken to writing commas mixed up with bad syllables, at which the ladies publicly knit their brows, and have put to him other questions of a like character....
Contents PROLOGUE..................................................................................................................................... 4 PERSEVERANCE IN LOVE.......................................................................................................... 9 CONCERNING A PROVOST WHO DID NOT RECOGNISE THINGS............................. 25 ABOUT THE MONK AMADOR, WHO WAS A GLORIOUS ABBOT OF TURPENAY... 34 BERTHA THE PENITENT .......................................................................................................... 51 I HOW BERTHA REMAINED A MAIDEN IN THE MARRIED STATE ..................................................................... 51 II HOW BERTHA BEHAVED, KNOWING THE BUSINESS OF LOVE .................................................................... 59 III HORRIBLE CHASTISEMENT OF BERTHA AND EXPIATION OF THE SAME, WHO DIED PARDONED ..... 72 HOW THE PRETTY MAID OF PORTILLON CONVINCED HER JUDGE........................................................ 80 IN WHICH IT IS DEMONSTRATED THAT FORTUNE IS ALWAYS FEMININE ........... 86 CONCERNING A POOR MAN WHO WAS CALLED LE VIEUX PAR-CHEMINS..........
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Excerpt: Towards three o?clock in the afternoon of one October day in the year 1844, a man of sixty or thereabouts, whom anybody might have credited with more than his actual age, was walking along the Boulevard des Italians with his head bent down, as if he were tracking some one. There was a smug expression about the mouth--he looked like a merchant who has just done a good stroke of business, or a bachelor emerging from a boudoir in the best of humors with himself; and in Paris this is the highest degree of self-satisfaction ever registered by a human countenance....
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Excerpt: Bianchon, a physician to whom science owes a fine system of theoretical physiology, and who, while still young, made himself a celebrity in the medical school of Paris, that central luminary to which European doctors do homage, practiced surgery for a long time before he took up medicine. His earliest studies were guided by one of the greatest of French surgeons, the illustrious Desplein, who flashed across science like a meteor. By the consensus even of his enemies, he took with him to the tomb an incommunicable method. Like all men of genius, he had no heirs; he carried everything in him, and carried it away with him. The glory of a surgeon is like that of an actor: they live only so long as they are alive, and their talent leaves no trace when they are gone. Actors and surgeons, like great singers too, like the executants who by their performance increase the power of music tenfold, are all the heroes of a moment....
...Ferragus Chief of the Devorants by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State El... ...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... ...lectronic Classics Series Publication Ferragus, Chief of the Devorants by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of th... ...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... ...elec- tronic transmission, in any way. Ferragus, Chief of the Devorants by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania Stat... ...ronic transmission, in any way. Ferragus, Chief of the Devorants by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...ic transmission, in any way. Ferragus, Chief of the Devorants by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State Universi...
Preface: Thirteen men were banded together in Paris under the Empire, all imbued with one and the same sentiment, all gifted with sufficient energy to be faithful to the same thought, with sufficient honor among themselves never to betray one another even if their interests clashed; and sufficiently wily and politic to conceal the sacred ties that united them, sufficiently strong to maintain themselves above the law, bold enough to undertake all things, and fortunate enough to succeed, nearly always, in their undertakings; having run the greatest dangers, but keeping silence if defeated; inaccessible to fear; trembling neither before princes, nor executioners, not even before innocence; accepting each other for such as they were, without social prejudices,--criminals, no doubt, but certainly remarkable through certain of the qualities that make great men, and recruiting their number only among men of mark....
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Excerpt: The talisman towards the end of the month of October 1829 a young man entered the Palais-Royal just as the gaming-houses opened, agreeably to the law which protects a passion by its very nature easily excisable. He mounted the staircase of one of the gambling hells distinguished 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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Excerpt: DEDICATION. The word lorette is a euphemism invented to describe the status of a personage, or a personage of a status, of which it is awkward to speak; the French Academie, in its modesty, having omitted to supply a definition out of regard for the age of its forty members. Whenever a new word comes to supply the place of an unwieldy circumlocution, its fortune is assured; the word lorette has passed into the language of every class of society, even where the lorette herself will never gain an entrance. It was only invented in 1840, and derived beyond a doubt from the agglomeration of such swallows? nests about the Church of Our Lady of Loretto. This information is for etymoligists only. Those gentlemen would not be so often in a quandary if mediaeval writers had only taken such pains with details of contemporary manners as we take in these days of analysis and description....
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Excerpt: Two Poets by Honore de Balzac, translated by Ellen Marriage.
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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 the office a turn; there is work for you there, I assure you?? But do you need this public testimony to feel assured of the affection of the writer?...