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

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

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

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

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...A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Chouans by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penns... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Chouans by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Worm... ...its rare wild-flowers, its vigorous vegetation, and its verdure, worthy of England, the very word being common to the two languages. A few cattle gave... ...luckily, down in that devilish Egypt; and how is he ever to get back, with England mistress of the Mediterranean?” “Bonaparte’s absence doesn’t troubl... ...lost on the commandant, who exclaimed as he pressed towards him: “Come on, opera-dancer, come on, and let me crush you!” The royalist leader, provoked... ...parently for the purpose of making it for the time being a headquarters of operations and supplies. From there they were able to communicate with Norm... ...owers which are some- times taken from their native fields to Parisian hot-houses, 58 The Chouans where so many blasting rays are concentrated, witho... ...zing the word “madame”; “there are two demoiselles de V erneuil; all great houses, as you know, have several branches.” The lady, surprised at this fr...

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

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...eat an aversion for traveling as the English have a propensity for it, both English and French have perhaps sufficient reasons. Something better than England is everywhere to be found; whereas it is excessively difficult to find the charms of France outside France. Other countries can show admirable scenery, and they frequently offer greater comfort than that of France, wh...

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... successfully-- to initiate me into the mysteries of musical knowledge. You have at least taught me what difficulties and what labor genius must bury in those poems which procure us transcendental pleasures. You have also afforded me the satisfaction of laughing more than once at the expense of a self-styled connoisseur....

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

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...Excerpt: Many tales, either rich in situations or made dramatic by some of the innumerable tricks of chance, carry with them their own particular setting, which can be rendered artistically or simply by those who narrate them, without their subjects losing a...

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

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...Excerpt: ENVOI. Felix de Vandenesse to Madame la Comtesse Natalie de Manerville: I yield to your wishes. It is the privilege of the women whom we love more than they love us to make the men who love them ignore the ordinary rules of common-sense. ...

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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: Ursula by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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... souls as noble, will grasp the whole of the thought underlying The Firm of Nucingen, appended to Cesar Birotteau. Is there not a whole social lesson in the contrast between the two stories?...

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Excerpt: A Woman of Thirty by Honore de Balzac, translated by Ellen Marriage.

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...A Woman of Thirty by Honoré de Balzac Translated by Ellen Marriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Ser... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Woman of Thirty by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, t... ...o submit to the Emperor’s pleasure, were not all suffered to remain in the houses where they were arrested, nor yet in the places of residence which a... ...on her marriage, and then sat as silent as if she had been listening to an opera. Not until two hours had been spent in an atmosphere of quiet befitti... ...ble creature, and discoursed on the delights of the country, of dances, of houses where they could visit. All that day the Marquise’s questions were s... ... meant to honor her with such a passing fancy as he might bestow upon some opera nymph. It amused Julie that she, a virtuous married woman, should be ... ...t never vibrate again like this. T o-morrow you will receive a letter from England, and we shall part, and never see each other again.” The effort had... ...als kept and keep their women, an example more and more followed in modern England, is the only safeguard of domestic morality; but under this sys- te...

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...bor?s eye; most of the younger women are there for one person only; when each woman has assured herself that for that one she is the handsomest woman in the room, and that the opinion 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 ...

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...Another Study of Woman by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell A Penn State Electro... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ained within the document or for the file as an elec- tronic transmission, in any way. Another Study of Woman by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marria... ... is one of those English inventions which tend to mechanize other nations. England seems bent on see- 4 Another Study of Woman ing the whole world as... ... itself, and dull in the same way. So this second party is, in some French houses, a happy protest on the part of the old spirit of our light-hearted ... ...of the old spirit of our light-hearted people. Only, unfortunately, so few houses protest; and the reason is a simple one. If we no longer have many s... ... much skill. “Every morning, riding Sultan—the fine horse you sent me from England,” de Marsay went on, addressing Lord Dudley, “I rode past her open ... ...ldest son’s wife, a duch- ess in name only, has no carriage, no people, no opera-box, no time to herself. She has not her own rooms in the family mans... ...ord Dudley. “Nowadays princes have lady-like wives, obliged to share their opera-box with other ladies; royal favor could not raise them higher by a h...

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

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

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...The Collection of Antiquities by Honore de Balzac Translated by Ellen Marriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Ser... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Collection of Antiquities by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen... ...f the moment, only to be annulled later on. And, therefore, so far from co-operating with the King to bring about a new condition of things, the Marqu... ...in the Ecoles, he must first serve in the Pages; that sons of the greatest houses went exactly like commoners to Saint-Cyr and the Ecole polytechnique... ... and watch over his con- nections with women. M. le Chevalier says that an opera dancer often costs less than a court lady. Obtain informa- tion on th... ...much as a thought. At this day there are names as famous as those of royal houses—the Foix-Graillys, for instance, or the d’Herouvilles—left to obscur... ...alet who had followed his master in his wanderings in Italy, Courland, and England, till after the Restoration the King 113 Balzac awarded him with t... ...ded to their husband’s professions, work, or busi- ness as well. In Italy, England, and Germany, women make it a point of honor to leave men to fight ...

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...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 be...

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...The Girl with the Golden Eyes by Honoré de Balzac Translated by Ellen Marriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Ser... ...ronic Classics Series Publication The Girl with the Golden Eyes by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Girl with the Golden Eyes by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen... ...ace, which friction has rubbed away, it turns gray like the faces of those houses upon which all kinds of dust and smoke have blown. In effect, the Pa... ...arth, to the Constitutionnel, to his office, to the National Guard, to the opera, and to God; but, only in order that the Constitutionnel, his office,... ...nly in order that the Constitutionnel, his office, the National Guard, the opera, his wife, and God may be changed into coin. In fine, hail to an irre... ...ps where it is stopped by puny coffer-dams, from the heart of the counting-houses and great workshops, where its volume is that of ingots—gold, in the... ...and Lord Dudley. T o begin with, the declaration of war between France and England had separated the two lovers, and fidelity at all costs was not, an...

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

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...Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by James Waring A Penn State Electronic Classics Seri... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Jame... ...SAN’S LIFE ESTHER HAPPY; OR, HOW A COURTESAN CAN LOVE IN 1824, at the last opera ball of the season, several masks were struck by the beauty of a yout... ... was so handsome as to rank among those exceptional persons who come to an opera ball in search of an adventure, and who expect it as confidently as m... ...ccupants of the quarter are accounted for by the exist- ence there of many houses of the same character, for which trade has no use, and which can onl... ...a single glance an expression of jeal- ousy grander and more complete than England and Italy together could imagine. This look, seen by Esther, made h... ...le des Touches’ good graces; and well content with being received in these houses, Lucien was instructed by the Abbe to be as reserved as pos- sible i... ...res, it is absolutely certain. The Ministers, thunderstruck by the news of England’s attempt, a retalia- tion on Napoleon for the Boulogne expedition,...

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

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...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...

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...Colonel Chabert by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell A Penn State Electro... ...nn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Colonel Chabert by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell is a publication of the Pen... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Colonel Chabert by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage and ... ...nguage would fail to rep- resent. “Which theatre shall we go to?” “T o the opera,” cried the head clerk. “In the first place,” said Godeschal, “I neve... ...ad seen Egypt, Syria, Spain, Russia, Holland, Germany, Italy and Dalmatia, England, China, T artary, Siberia; the only thing wanting was that neither ... ...y house; it had been sold and pulled down. Speculators had built sev- eral houses over my gardens. Not knowing that my wife had married M. Ferraud, I ... ...up at the blue sky in the opening of the courtyard enclosed by four gloomy houses. “Ah, ha!” cried the little clerk, “who will bet an evening at the p... ... 60 Colonel Chabert seemed to have concentrated all his intelligence on an opera- tion well known to these pensioners, which consists in drying their ...

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

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...enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Modeste Mignon by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penns... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Modeste Mignon by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott W... ...bor, and the docks present a very different aspect from the fifty thousand houses of Paris. At the foot of Montmartre an ocean of slate roofs lies in ... ...t, the suburban residence of the merchants of Havre. Here they build their houses on terraces around its ampitheatre of hills, and breathe the sea air... ...rodigious activity and intel- ligence of a native of Provence. This double operation of Dumay’s was worth a fortune to the house of Mignon. The colone... ... Norman to fall in love with foreign things,—above all when they come from England.” Madame Mignon, notwithstanding her melancholy, could not help smi... ...ated men was free?—that was the question. Modeste began by securing the co-operation of Francoise Cochet, a maid taken from Havre and brought back aga... ...hotels in Graville and in Havre, and ask if a gentle- man has arrived from England named Monsieur Arthur—” “Listen to me, mademoiselle,” said Butscha,...

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...Letters of T wo Brides by Honoré de Balzac Translated by R. S. Scott A Penn State Electronic Classics Series... ...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 ... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ained within the document or for the file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. Letters of Two Brides by Honoré de Balzac, trans. R. S. Scott, ... ...spoilt. You see, I have a figure, dear; this becomes serious. Janssen, the Operatic shoemaker, solemnly assures me that I have my mother’s foot. The w... ...rs reach my ear. So far I have not gone beyond the garden; but the Italian opera opens in a few days, and my mother has a box there. I am crazy with d... ...ht of this and that young man, and of some girls whom I had met in several houses. I replied with quite inane remarks on the color of their hair, thei... ...d him. “You have committed yourself now, mademoiselle,” said Griffith. “In England that might be so, but not in France,” I replied with nonchalance. “... ...ver visit the toy-shops, as mothers do, to buy swords, and dolls, and baby-houses? And will it never be mine to watch the unfolding of a precious life...

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...Catherine dé Medici by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katherine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electroni... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Catherine dé Medici by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katherine Presc... ... world hesitates between the famous song on Marlborough and the history of England, and it also hesitates between history and popular tradition as to ... ...evenge, like that of Beaumarchais on Bergasse (Bergearss) —Falstaff is, in England, a type of the ridiculous; his very name provokes laughter; he is t... ...st house of business he owned there, which corresponded with other banking-houses of his own in Venice, Rome, France, and Spain. Here we find a strang... ...e first time in history that conclusion has pre- ceded facts. In 1560, the houses of the rue de la Vieille-Pelleterie skirted the left bank of the Sei... ... the instruction of his brother-feuilletonists in giving an account of the opera of the “Cenerentola,” where the symbolic slipper has been re- placed ... ... revenues. Commerce every- where reckoned up the profits of this religious operation, and devoted itself body, soul, and purse, to the cause. But amon...

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

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...The Brotherhood of Consolation by Honore de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electroni... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ained within the document or for the file as an elec- tronic transmission, in any way. The Brotherhood of Consolation by Honore de Balzac, trans. Kath... ...ing two steps, look down upon the rags and tatters of that ignoble nest of houses huddling between the quai de la Tournelle and the Hotel-Dieu,—a foul... ...o give himself a voca- tion. The manners and customs of bourgeois boarding-houses shocked his delicacy, sanitariums seemed to him unhealthy, and he wa... ...d, father of the present head of the house, many favors in the finan- cial operations under the Restoration, obtained for him also the confidence of t... ...olored. The whole was so shabby that I tried not to look at it. The hat—an opera hat of a kind we then carried under the arm, and not on the head—had ... ... he seemed about to give way under the combined and simultaneous attack of England and Austria. This was the moment for the Chouan uprising; but just ... ...ged two thousand francs in silver money for gold, and fled to Brittany and England. On arriving at Saint-Savin, the women Lechantre and Bryond heard o...

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... Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Cousin Betty by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publication of the Pennsylvania State U... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Cousin Betty by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring, the Penn... ...the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Cousin Betty by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec- tr... ... You do not know, perhaps, that most of our professors live on Germany, on England, on the East, or on the North, as an insect lives on a tree; and, l... ...ltivate her talent as a singer. She made me music-mad; I took a box at the opera for her and for my daughter, and went there alternate evenings with C... ... my sweet little girl, a perfect darling—but you must have seen her at the opera; he got her an engagement there. Your husband is not so well behaved ... ...n petticoats taken about by little Savoyards. As she was well known in the houses connected by family which she frequented, and restricted her social ... ...hat the old maid’s prudence was but rational. The existence of the maze of houses under the wing of the old Louvre is one of those protests against ob...

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...Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Eve and David by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Eve and David by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, the P... ...sheet must be printed four separate times, for which reason none but small houses will attempt to produce a Shepherd’s calen- dar, and that only in th... ...ing will be for France what coal and iron and coarse potter’s clay are for England—a monopoly. I mean to be the Jacquart of the trade.” Eve rose to he... ...unts of expenses of protest pay for Mme. la Baronne de Nucingen’s dresses, opera box, and carriage. The charge for postage is a more shocking swindle,... ...roblem. He had been trying to find a single process to replace the various operations of pounding and maceration to which all flax or cotton or rags, ... ...rought to bay, and driven into exile by the Law, went to enrich five noble houses; and the father of the Archbishop of Bourges left the kingdom for ev... ... express condition that things shall re- main exactly as they were before. England flaunts her per- fidy in the face of the world, and her abominable ...

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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,...

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...enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Magic Skin by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Magic Skin by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, the ... ...th 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 na... ...ins to the old man and the child, left the footway, and turned towards the houses; the harrow- ing sight of the Seine fretted him beyond endurance. “M... ...laughing at an unlucky wretch, so I wish that you may fall in love with an opera-dancer. You would understand the pleasures of intemperance then, and ... ...ndertake anything; whose perspicacity discovers the intentions of Austria, England, or Russia be- fore either Russia, Austria or England have formed a... ...hearth, or cower over the ashes in a red earthen pot; whether we go to the Opera or look on in the Place de Greve?” “Aquilina mia, you have never show... ...es in the fertile pasture-lands of Germany, at T oplitz or Baden-Baden. If England is not obnoxious to you, its misty climate would reduce your fever;...

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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 ...

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...A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Cousin Pons by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Cousin Pons by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, the Pen... ... sentimen- tal songs trilled by our mothers, to say nothing of a couple of operas, played in 1815 and 1816, and divers unpublished scores. The worthy ... ...d their lodgings in horror, and live as much as possible in other people’s houses, Pons was accustomed to the formulas and facial contortions which do... ...rs he contrived to dine without expense by making himself necessary in the houses which he frequented. He took the first step in the downward path by ... ...Company, who, be it said, made their for- tune, hit upon the grand idea of operas for the people, and carried it out in a boulevard theatre in 1834. A... ...,’ as you say; you would have to give him a drop into a family, just as in England they give a man a drop into the next world.” During the uproar that... ...ish fleet takes over the dressing of the pleasure yacht for Her Majesty of England when she takes a trip to Germany. 73 Balzac Pons and Schmucke, on ...

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

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...e A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Two Poets by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ... tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Two Poets by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, the Penns... ...or the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Two Poets by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec- ... ...in those days. Leather ink-balls were still used in old-fashioned printing houses; the pressman dabbed the ink by hand on the charac- ters, and the mo... ...e, and for her gentle manners was preferred to any other among the wealthy houses, where she lived without expense to her children, and earned some se... ...overed ore in her nature, profited her nothing, underwent the transforming operation of Time and changed to absurdities. For our absurdities spring, i... ...ociety; and, doing his utmost to be agreeable, had adopted the smile of an opera dancer as his sole method of expression. Satisfied, he smiled; dissat... ... done. The middle classes do the same. So there is a scarcity of linen. In England, where four-fifths of the population use cotton to the exclusion of...