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...Excerpt: Half-way down the Rue Saint-Denis, almost at the corner of the Rue du Petit-Lion, there stood formerly one of those delightful houses which enable historians to reconstruct old Paris by analogy. The threatening walls of this tumbledown abo...

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...ated by Clara Bell A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication At the Sign of the Cat and Racket by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell is a ... ...lara Bell A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication At the Sign of the Cat and Racket by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell is a publicati... ...the Cat and Racket by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ... Cat and Racket by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...urniture showed the respectable cleanliness which reveals strict order and economy. The most waggish of the three youths often amused himself by writi... ...ph did not share the symmetrical ideas of his master, who would not for an empire have given his second daughter in marriage before the elder. The un-... ...ment, for instance. Have we not seen Monsieur Dupont become a Count of the Empire, and a senator, all because he went as mayor to congratulate the Emp... ...undoubted value, that the simplest room in the house looked like a chapel. Economy and expense seemed to be struggling for the upper hand in every acc... ...e end of the dainty boudoir she saw the Duchess lounging luxuriously on an ottoman covered with brown velvet and placed in the centre of a sort of aps...