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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 no dep...

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...The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electroni... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...CTIONS 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 th... ...r present at the intimate conversations which went on in the salon. In the provinces there are two sorts of intimate conversation,—one, which is held ... ...uices. The space between the public bridge and this private bridge forms a basin, on the banks of which are several large houses. By an opening betwee... ... the music of the wheels, from which the churned water falls back into the basin in sparkling cascades, animate the rue du Pont, contrasting in this r... ...I would rush upon the monster and discharge my gratitude upon him at short range. I have come to think with you that the really dangerous side of this... ...and in so high and clear a voice that not a word was lost within a certain range. Marianina shrugged her shoulders as she listened to this pro- found ...

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Excerpt: The Vicar of Tours by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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...The Vicar of T ours by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electroni... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Vicar of Tours by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penns... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ... Gamard. When Birotteau first came to visit his friend, he thought the ar- rangement of the rooms excellent, but he noticed nothing more. The outset o... ...tall clock, the bureau, curtains, chairs, carpets, to the stately bed, the basin of holy-water, the crucifix, to a Virgin by Valentin, a Christ by Leb... ... selfishness peculiar to the priesthood and that of the narrow life of the provinces had insensibly, and un- known to himself, developed within him. I... ... But in this instance the eyes of the good vicar never reached the optical range which enables men of the world to see and evade their neighbours’ rou... ...be Troubert, it would offer a finished picture of the Boeotian life of the provinces. The singular revelations of the Abbe Birotteau and Mademoiselle ...

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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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...ley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Beatrix by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penns... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...usand portraits which he painted of human nature. In “The Great Man of the Provinces in Paris” some like- nesses were imagined: Jules Janin in Etienne... ...y wretched roads with the sub-prefec- ture, or the chief city of their own province, these towns re- gard the new civilization as a spectacle to be ga... ...l- lar to garret. The facade on the court-yard has a portico with a double range of steps, the wall of which is covered with 11 Beatrix vestiges of c... ...h force of will is the equal of a man of thirty. Her mind had taken a wide range; habits of criticism enabled her to judge soberly of men, and art, an... ...re are splendid rocks there, cascades of granite, little bays with natural basins, charm- ingly unexpected and capricious things, besides the sea itse... ...st weather, and faces southerly, diluvian caprice has constructed a hollow basin, which projects about four feet. Into this basin, or cleft, chance, p...

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...he 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 their way to Mayenne, were going up the little mountain of La Pelerine, half-way between Fougeres and Ernee, a small town where travelers along that road...

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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... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...h its construction. From the summit of La Pelerine the traveller’s eye can range over the great valley of Couesnon, at one of the farthest points of w... ...own of Fougeres. From here the officers could see, to its full extent, the basin of this intervale, as remarkable for the fertility of its soil as for... ...ustoms of the Gauls have left their strongest imprint. That portion of the province where, even to our own times, the 15 Balzac savage life and super... ... on the summit of Mont Pelerine, gives a brief but faithful picture of the province and its inhabitants. A trained imagination can by the help of thes... ...s, whom laughing young girls, unmindful of their perfidy, attracted within range,—for had they not made pilgrimages with their fathers and their broth... ...traveller meet with such grandiose contrasts as those offered by the great basin of the Couesnon, and the valleys hidden among the rocks of Fougeres a...

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

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...y A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Seraphita by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penn-... ... Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Seraphita by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penn- sy... ...- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...or the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Seraphita by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...he fiord and reached the snow-field which divides the shore from the first range of houses; then, hurrying forward as daylight faded, they sprang up t... ...long shelf against the wall between the stove and the window on which were ranged books of all sizes, “behold him! here are seven- teen works from his... ...e shall be no paltry sovereignty like those that govern to-day the ancient provinces of the Roman empire, disputing with their subjects about a custom... ...ng Seraphita with a frenzied movement, as if to fling her into the foaming basin of the Sieg. She looked at him and slowly extended her arm, pointing ...

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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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...The Lily of the Valley by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electroni... ...The Lily of the Valley by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic C... ...e Electronic Classics Series Publication The Lily of the Valley by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penns... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ... Born to wealth, he was now poor; made to command a regi- ment or govern a province, he was now without authority and without a future; constitutional... ...ir full extent till lost in the misty distance. T owards Montbazon the eye ranges over a vast green plain; in all other directions it is stopped by hi... ...nd above it the portrait of her aunt; then, on each side of the holy water basin, two drawings of the children made by herself, with locks of their ha... ...so superior in mind; her sparkling and satirical conversa- tion had a wide range. But I adored Henriette. At night I wept with happiness, in the morni...

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...Excerpt: To whom, madame, but to you should I inscribe this work; to you whose lofty and candid intellect is a treasury to your friends; to you that are to me not only a whole public, but the most indulgent of sisters as well? Will you deign to accept a token of the friendship of which I am proud? You, and so...

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...The Firm of Nucingen by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by James Waring A Penn State Electronic Classics Seri... ...The Firm of Nucingen by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by James Waring A Penn State Electronic Classics Series ... ...ate Electronic Classics Series Publication The Firm of Nucingen by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State... ... Electronic Classics Series Publication The Firm of Nucingen by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State Un... ...syl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ... manitarian language.) For these, all material interests lie with- out the range of sentiment. They give their time, their life, their honor to a woma... ...ly rising and falling upon a small round freestone slab in the middle of a basin some six feet across; they would rise early of a morning to see if th... ...the legislature. The great men of their districts are sent up to us by the provinces, crammed with parochial no- tions of right and wrong; and ideas t...

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...The Collection of Antiquities by Honore de Balzac Translated by Ellen Marriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Ser... ...ronic Classics Series Publication The Collection of Antiquities by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...urt for two hundred years; they were lords para- mount in the estates of a province where the people looked up to them with superstitious awe, as to t... ...worn out with grief. The Nouastres came of the 7 Balzac best blood in the province; Mlle. de Nouastre was a girl of two-and-twenty; the Marquis d’Esg... ...nd overwhelming disaster; whether that I have come to understand the whole range of human feelings, and, best of all, the thoughts of Old Age and Regr... ...ghast; then, again, some profound sally, some sign of the lad’s remarkable range of intellect, would reassure him. He would say, as the Marquis said a... ...ittle flower-cov- ered brick house, as dull a life as any carp in a marble basin. Michu and Camusot also received the Cross of the Legion of Honor, wh...

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... been published on the question as to where Hannibal crossed the Alps, without our being able to decide to-day whether it was (according to Whittaker and Rivaz) by Lyon, Geneva, the Great Saint-Bernard, and the valley of Aosta....

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...Catherine dé Medici by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katherine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electroni... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...derstood the orders of the ministry, but Charles X. left him governor of a province. The power of the many is accountable to no one; the power of one ... ...fare and overrun with conquerors struggling for posses- sion of her finest provinces. When men are so strong, they do not fear to admit their weakness... ...e necessities of navigation could allow, the Seine formed as many enclosed basins as there were bridges. Some of these basins in the heart of old Pari... ... the rivers are overhung with wooden houses, and where, as at Vendome, the basins, full of water grasses, are enclosed by immense iron railings, to is... ...eri, an observa- tory, which is still standing, and from which the eye may range over the whole landscape of that delightful valley. The two Lorrain p... ...red men-at-arms.” The prince gave the highest praise to these military ar- rangements. “The lieutenant-general must have been fully aware of the plans...

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

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...The Village Rector by Honoré de Balzac Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Seri... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...e, for she was a boon to its curiosity, which has little to feed on in the provinces. Veronique was all the more studied because she had appeared in t... ...ospect of a family. 37 Balzac IV THE HISTORY OF MANY MARRIED WOMEN IN THE PROVINCES SO NOW, in her magnificent house and envied for her wealth by all... ...rsonal intention; 52 The Village Rector they believed he had accomplices, basing this idea on the impossibility of one man carrying away the buried m... ...of the Correze. These mountains have neither the abrupt rise of the Alpine ranges nor their splendid ridges; neither the warm gorges and deso- late pe... ... is like (agriculture apart) the plateau of La Beauce, which separates the basin of the Loire from that of the Seine, also like those of Touraine and ... ...mere primary instructor; I can, if I leave my present post, act in a wider range than that of a school or a country parish. The Saint-Simonians, to wh...

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...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 mar...

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...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 Classics Series Publication The Cou... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Country Doctor by Honoré de Balzad, trans. Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell is a publication of the Pen... ...Publication The Country Doctor by Honoré de Balzad, trans. Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This ... ...ade alterations about the place, set up and took down, arranged and disar- ranged everything at her own sweet will; her master had never raised a murm... ... of State, the decision of great ques- tions of this kind is not within my province; but, setting these considerations aside, there are other difficul... ...stood about the room, and on a low chest of drawers in walnut wood stood a basin, and a ewer of obsolete pattern with a lid, which was kept in place b... ...call scenes in the Bible. Na- ture has traced out a line over our mountain ranges; the whole appearance of the country is different on either side of ... ...The decanters were of the old-fashioned octagonal kind still in use in the provinces, though they have disappeared elsewhere. Grotesque figures had be...

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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... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...yal table, some carp were taken out of a muddy pool and placed in a marble basin of bright, clean water. The carp perished. The animals might be sacri... ...she would reply. Old Canquoelle bore a perpetual certificate of his native province in his accent. He spoke of une estatue (a statue), le peuble (the ... ... made a Jacques Collin of Frederick the Great, if, instead of dealing with provinces by means of battles, he had dealt in smuggled goods or transferab... ... the glass over the chimney shelf, where stood, in the place of a clock, a basin and jug. On one side was a bottle of water and a glass, on the other ... ... watching in its web. And this comparison is mathematically exact; for the range of vision being limited on all sides by high dark walls, the prisoner... ...use’s and Made- moiselle Clotilde de Grandlieu’s. You may come to some ar- rangement with this gentleman—” “Who is he?” asked Monsieur de Granville, i...

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...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 t...

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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 ... ...syl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...nt. Imagination had thrown open her fairy realms, and in these our spirits ranged at will, each in turn serving as magic steed to the other, the more ... ... barren shore! I find in my soul the image of the deserts where my fathers ranged, illumined by a scorching sun which shrivels up all life. Proud remn... ... glorious stock of the l’Estorades, that is all. You will be buried in the provinces. Are these the promises we made each other? Were I you, I would s... ... whirl, must demand different treatment from the more peaceful home in the provinces. But if place alters the conditions of marriage, much more does c... ...nd they stand, spotless and shining, amid a chaos of soap, sponges, combs, basins, blotting-paper, flannel, and all the nameless litter of a true Engl...

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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... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...or the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Two Poets by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec- ... ...ke marquises, financiers, doctors, and lawyers, would have been within the province of the writer of plays? And why should Comedy, qui castigat ridend... ...d at the back. A passage at the side led to the private office; but in the provinces the processes of ty- pography excite such a lively interest, that... ...half-a-dozen chairs with lyre- shaped backs and blue leather cushions were ranged round the room. The two clumsy arched windows that gave upon the Pla... ... stood a red tray with a pattern of gilt roses, and three cups and a sugar-basin of Limoges porce- lain. Eve slept in the little adjoining closet, whe... ...a very great man; but the Marquise laughed, and 88 Two Poets her laughter ranged her on Nais’ side. “You are very fortunate, monsieur,” said the Marq...

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...uth--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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...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... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ... the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Cousin Pons by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec- ... ...e Marville since their marriage; she had shared the early struggles in the provinces when M. Camusot was a judge at Alencon; she had helped them to ex... ...e afoot for a quarter in which every street was to be named after a French province, and all should converge in a handsome square to which La France s... ...plaint known as a “churchyard cough,” and had recourse to an earthen- ware basin half full of herb tea, which he drained. “But for Poulain, my dear ma... ...ot’s ear had prompted a daring piece of acting, somewhat beyond La Cibot’s range, it may be, though she played her part through- out in a masterly sty...