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...e 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 fai...

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...Gaudissart II by Honore de Balzac T ranslated by Clara Bell and others A Penn State Electronic Classic... ...hers A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Gaudissart II by Honore de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and others is a publication of the Penn... ...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... ...r for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Gaudissart II by Honore de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and others, the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...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... ... bril- liant display of shops as rich as the salons of the noblesse before 1789; the splendors of cafes which eclipse, and easily eclipse, the V ersai... ...s; for them encyclopaedias of carnival frippery and a score of illustrated books are brought out every year, to say noth- ing of caricatures by the hu... ...e can at need talk as- phalt, Bal Mabille, polkas, literature, illustrated books, rail- ways, politics, parliament, and revolution; transplant him, ta...

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...Excerpt: Here, madame, is one of those books which come into the mind, whence no one knows, giving pleasure 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 ple...

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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... ...t Wormeley Dedication To Constance-Victoire. Here, madame, is one of those books which come into the mind, whence no one knows, giving pleasure to the... ...rtain M. Metivier, jr., wholesale dealer in pa- per; that on the left to a bookseller named Barbet. The of- fices of each were above the warerooms; th... ...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 ... ...s discussion, such remarks as the following:— “How could the Revolution of 1789 have been avoided? The loans of Louis XIV . prepared the way for it. L... ...religion. A singular thing happened to our family during the Revolution of 1789, which attached us more closely than ever to our holy mother the Churc...

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

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...eley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Ursula by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penns... ...y A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Ursula by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsyl-... ...r for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Ursula by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...or the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Ursula by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State Univer- ... ...s are indeed a formidable public, for they ought not to be allowed to read books less pure than the purity of their souls; they are forbidden certain ... ...s uncle with the young girl called Ursula on his arm, both carrying prayer-books and just entering the church. The old man took off his hat in the por... ...ce of la- bor and the shrewdness of commerce,—produced the revo- lution of 1789. The two races almost reunited are to-day face to face with collateral... ...spying. After the death of his wife, Ursula Mirouet, and between the years 1789 and 1813, the doctor (who had been ap- pointed consulting physician to... ...ard to his hotel on which was written “To-morrow; nine o’clock, Rue Saint- Honore, opposite the Assumption.” Minoret, who seemed to have renewed his y...

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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... ...blication A Distinguished Provincial at Paris (Lost Illusions Part II) by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...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... ...willingly,” replied the Baron, “but we live with human beings and not with books. There, dear Nais! I see how it is, there is nothing between you yet,... ...uture friend was on the staff of a small newspa- per, and wrote reviews of books and dramatic criticism of pieces played at the Ambigu-Comique, the Ga... ...lk, an immense amount of business was transacted between the Revolution of 1789 and the Revolution of 1830. For twenty years the Bourse stood just opp...

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...rmeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Bureaucracy by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of th... ...A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Bureaucracy by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penns... ...enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Bureaucracy by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylv... ... the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Bureaucracy by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...e file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Bureaucracy by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...those petty partial revolutions, the ed- dies, as it were, of the storm of 1789, which the historians of great social movements neglect to inquire int... ... derived their life from it. The result was devotion and confidence. Since 1789 the State, call it the Nation if you like, has re- placed the sovereig... .... Formerly book-keeper at the Treasury, when that estab- lishment kept its books by double entry, the Sieur Saillard was compensated for the loss of t... ...bbe Gaudron, vicar of Saint-Paul’s and the family director, called profane books. This discipline had borne fruit. Forced to employ her feelings on so...

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...Excerpt: Note. It is somewhat remarkable that Balzac, dealing as he did with traits of character and the minute and daily circumstances of life, has never been accused of representing actual persons in the two or three thousand portraits which he painted of human nature....

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...t Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Beatrix by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of th... ...ley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Beatrix by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penns... ... A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Beatrix by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylv... ... for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Beatrix by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...r the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Beatrix by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State Universi... ... of France towards its engagistes (tenants of crown-lands) before the year 1789. Where and when could the barons obtain the million their farmers have... ... the barons obtain the million their farmers have advanced to them? Before 1789 the tenure of the fiefs subject to the castle of Guaisnic was still wo... ..., as blind persons, on whose soul sound lingers like a divining echo, read books in which the pages are black and the letters white. Mademoiselle Zeph... ...phle- teers, painters, musicians, a devilish society, in short. She writes books herself, and has taken a false name by which she is better known, the...

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Excerpt: Sons of the Soil by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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...Sons of the Soil by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electroni... ...Sons of the Soil by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic C... ...n State Electronic Classics Series Publication Sons of the Soil by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penns... ...tate Electronic Classics Series Publication Sons of the Soil by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...e octavos in their library; in fact, they scarcely buy even stitched paper books. What is to become of us? Adieu; continue to care for Your Blondet. ... ...me particular interest attaches us, as it did in Blondet’s case, to scenes honored by the steps and lighted by the eyes of a certain person, one would... ...as instru- ments of convenience. Self-interest has become, specially since 1789, the sole motive of the masses; they never ask if an 45 Balzac action... ... throughout France; it is the out- come of the hopes which the upheaval of 1789 caused to infiltrate, if I may use that expression, the minds of the p... ...prove unfavorable in its after effects upon his interests. His 255 Balzac books and papers were kept by a cashier,—an honest man, whom men of Gaubert...

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...Eugenie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic... ...Eugenie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Cl... ...nn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Eugenie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penns... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication Eugenie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...ll be seen, battered by the many revolutions that have shaken France since 1789. In this hilly street the ground-floors of the merchants are neither s... ... by those who have not, at one time or another, lived in the provinces. In 1789 Monsieur Grandet—still called by certain persons le Pere Grandet, thou... ...ar the wood-pile, where the logs were ranged with as much precision as the books in a library. The pavement of the court-yard showed the black stains ... ...ormer period, money sways the laws and politics and morals. Institutions, books, men, and dogmas, all conspire to undermine belief in a fu- ture life...

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...The Collection of Antiquities by Honore de Balzac Translated by Ellen Marriage A Penn State Electronic Class... ...The Collection of Antiquities by Honore de Balzac Translated by Ellen Marriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Ser... ...The Collection of Antiquities by Honore de Balzac Translated by Ellen Marriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Series... ...ronic Classics Series Publication The Collection of Antiquities by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...ic Classics Series Publication The Collection of Antiquities by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...ld during the troubles. The old blood showed itself proud and high even in 1789. The Marquis of that day would not emigrate; he was answerable for his... ...s case was the hardest. Like other great families, the d’Esgrignons before 1789 derived the greater part of their income from their rights as lords of... ...yer like an angel out of one of the vignettes which illustrate Lamartine’s books), held out the notes, and went back in confusion to bed. “You are an ... ... lawyer; it contained a big bureau, a mahogany arm- chair, a law student’s books, and shabby belongings trans- ported from Paris. Mme. Camusot’s room ...

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...Excerpt: MME. VAUQUER (nee de Conflans) is an elderly person, who for the past forty years has kept a lodging-house in the Rue Nueve-Sainte-Genevieve, in the district that lies between the Latin Quarter and the Faubourg Saint-Marcel. Her house (known i...

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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... ...thousand ridiculous stories are told about the author of one of the finest books in French literature,—”Pantagruel.” Aretino, the friend of Titian, an... ... 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,... ... The family lamp, standing on the table where his father was making up his books for the day, spoke to him, no doubt, of the joys of family and the pe... ...XIV., always protected by the younger branches, by the house of Orleans in 1789, as by the house of Bourbon in 1589. Whoso says “Investigate” says “Re... ...the two women that they were followed by a dead silence. The fer- ments of 1789 were already tingling in the veins of Lecamus, who was not yet so old ...

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

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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... ..., and we now elect a man of Arcis, in order to show that the old spirit of 1789, to which you owe your fortune, still lives in the land of Danton, Mal... ...t on Simon, “if you do send me, to represent principles, the principles of 1789; to be one of the ciphers, if you choose, of the Opposi- tion, but a c... ... rippling current. Mademoiselle Antonia at first took a book with her; but books not being, as she says, in her line, she looked about for other ways ... ...eous collection of articles testifying to the colonel’s habits and tastes. Books, charts, and maps certainly justified the word “study”; but, as a fra...

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

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

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

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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... ...enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Cousin Pons by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ... the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Cousin Pons by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec- ... ...e file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Cousin Pons by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec- tro... ...own father and mother retired from a firm founded before the Revolution of 1789, leaving their capital in the business until Mlle. Pons’ father sold i... ...e Marville, announced by Mme. Cibot, was an event in the house. Pons, thus honored for the first time in his life saw reparation ahead. “At last, my d... ...Paris cannot have his name on the rolls unless he has decent furniture and books and the like. I am a doctor of law, I have kept my terms, and have po... ...ers or advertisements. Evidently the el- dest boy, the owner of the school-books stacked in a corner, was left in charge while his parents were absent...