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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 not one of the most importan...

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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... ...ar Baron,—Y ou have taken so warm an interest in my long, vast “History of French Manners in the Nineteenth Century,” you have given me so much encour... ...the Church or Finance. Intrusted in the days of yore with the keeping of a French March, the title of marquis in their family meant no shadow of imagi... ...was still the Province, and the prefecture the intendance. The Marquis was honored among them for his admirable behavior, his loyalty as a noble, his ... ...s of law were reorganized he had been set aside; Napoleon’s aver- sion for Republicans was apt to reappear in the smallest ap- pointments under his go...

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...y which we now call ?Empire.? Rain had refreshed the earth during the month of October, so that the trees were still green and leafy in November. The French people were beginning to put faith in a secret understanding between the skies and Bonaparte, then declared Consul for life,--a belief in which that man owes part of his prestige; strange to say, on the day the sun fai...

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...An Historical Mystery by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electroni... ...An Historical Mystery by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic C... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication An Historical Mystery by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penns... ...Electronic Classics Series Publication An Historical Mystery by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylv... ... of October, so that the trees were still green and leafy in November. The French people were beginning to put faith in a secret understanding between... ...Empire was just dawning. Those who in these days read the histories of the French Revolution can form no con- ception of the vast spaces which public ... ...idered it fortunate that Bonaparte escaped that danger, believing that the republicans had instigated it. But Laurence wept with rage when she heard h... ... be arrested. The First Consul likes the ci-devants, and cannot endure the republicans—simple enough; if he wants a throne he must needs strangle Libe... ...their Emperor. If I fail—well, the memory of that man shall live eternally honored in our family. Present his petition for mercy so as to gain time; m...

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

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...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... ...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... ...ssary to say that the Polish count, though an exile, was no expense to the French government. Comte Adam Laginski belonged to one of the oldest and mo... ...SKIS. But heraldic knowledge is not the most distinguishing feature of the French nation under Louis-Philippe, and Polish nobility was no great recomm... ...in French estimation, thanks to a shameful governmental reac- tion, as the republicans had sought to raise it. The singular struggle of the Movement a... ...cts. These carnival follies had their special Pandemonium in the rue Saint-Honore and their Napoleon in Musard, a small man born expressly to lead an ...

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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... ...enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Chouans by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylv... ... the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Chouans by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...e file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Chouans by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...te University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac The Chouans by Honore de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley Dedication T o ... ... gloomy apparition, with an accent which proved his difficulty in speaking French, “there Maine begins” (pointing with his huge, rough hand towards Er... ...“ga” is a relic of the Celtic language. It has passed from low Breton into French, and the word in our present speech has more ancient associa- tions ... ... the commandant, caught by this royal decoration (then almost forgotten by republicans), turned quickly to the young man’s face, which, however, he so... ...ed by Chouans who were fully as obstinate and far superior in numbers. The Republicans were surrounded on all sides by the Goatskins uttering their sa...

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Excerpt: Z. Marcas by Honore de Balzac, translated by Clara Bell and others.

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...s A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Z. Marcas by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and others is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ... Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Z. Marcas by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and others is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ...or the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Z. Marcas by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and others, the Pennsylvania State University,... ...the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Z. Marcas by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and others, the Pennsylvania State University, El... ...Parisian to the level of the natural savage—a republican, a conspirator, a French- man, an old man, who outdid all we have heard of Negro determinatio... ...ther country; for there is no more resemblance between the English and the French constitutions than between the two lands. Thus Marcas’ place was in ... ...not care to admit him to their offices. Marcas could side neither with the Republicans nor with the Legitimists, two parties whose triumph would mean ...

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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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...Albert Savarus by Honoré de Balzac Translated by Ellen Marriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Series... ...enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Albert Savarus by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia Sta... ... State Electronic Classics Series Publication Albert Savarus by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State ... ...e file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Albert Savarus by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, the Pennsylvania State University, Electr... ... the Custom-house. The fashion that is called En- glish in Paris is called French in London, and this is recipro- cal. The hostility of the two nation... ...Paris by an Englishwoman, were invented in Lon- don, it is known why, by a Frenchwoman, the notorious Duchess of Portsmouth. They were at first so jee... ...by the great Gazette, and the Pa- triot, which frisked in the hands of the Republicans. Paris sent them a young man, knowing nothing about la Franche ... ...occasion to repress them. She imitated the police in its dealings with the republicans; but she labored in vain. Rosalie showed no symptoms of rebelli...

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...A Daughter of Eve by Honoré de Balzac Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic... ...A Daughter of Eve by Honoré de Balzac Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Cl... ... State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Daughter of Eve by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penns... ...ate Electronic Classics Series Publication A Daughter of Eve by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...pinesses which a rigid mother denied to the Eugenie of these pages. Though Frenchmen are taxed with incon- stancy, you will find me Italian in faithfu... ... with blue velvet of that tender shade, with shimmering reflections, which French industry has lately learned to fabricate. Over the doors and windows... ...viewed all parties and all shades of party, —pure republi- cans, presiding republicans, republicans without a republic, constitutionals without a dyna... ...ant discussion and rushed to Madame d’Espard’s house in the faubourg Saint-Honore. Beholding Rastignac’s elegant cabriolet enter the court-yard while ... ...hter of Eve “was maintaining, when you came in, that the royalists and the republicans have a secret understanding. You ought to know something about ...

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...The Illustrious Gaudissart by Honore de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State El... ...The Illustrious Gaudissart by Honore de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electroni... ...The Illustrious Gaudissart by Honore de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic C... ...tate Electronic Classics Series Publication The Illustrious Gaudissart by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publica- tion of ... ...ectronic Classics Series Publication The Illustrious Gaudissart by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publica- tion of the Pen... ...ronic Classics Series Publication The Illustrious Gaudissart by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publica- tion of the Pennsy... ...ticle” and to reason upon it suitably. He asked nothing, however, from the republicans. In the first place, he inclined in republican ideas,—the only ... ...esides which he had already dipped into 11 Balzac the conspiracies of the French “carbonari”; he had been ar- rested, and released for want of proof;...

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...s, near the ruins of a house recently pulled down, at the point where in our day the wing begins which was intended to unite the chateau of Catherine de Medici with the Louvre of the Valois....

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...ey A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Vendetta by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penn-... ...A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Vendetta by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penn- sy... ...for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Vendetta by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State Uni- ... ... the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Vendetta by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State Uni- ver... ... upon her lips, with chestnut hair and delicate white hands, was a typical French virgin, thoughtless, and without hidden thoughts, living her natural... ...take service in foreign countries if you are not forgotten here; or in the French army, if you are.” In the comfort that women give there is always a ... ...coration of the Legion of honor. No man offered a finer image of those old Republicans, incorruptible friends to the Empire, who re- mained the living...

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

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...The Muse of the Department by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by James Waring A Penn State Electronic Classics Seri... ...The Muse of the Department by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by James Waring A Penn State Electronic Classics Series ... ...ectronic Classics Series Publication The Muse of the Department by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publication of the Pennsylvania State U... ...ronic Classics Series Publication The Muse of the Department by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...udes, devised by Ferdinand de Gramont, gentleman,” is a complete manual of French Heraldry, in which noth- ing is forgotten, not even the arms of the ... ...od one of the most ter- 5 Balzac rible sieges of our religious wars, when French Calvinists far outdid the ferocious Cameronians of Walter Scott’s ta... ... scrape. The country gentleman, lodging at the Hotel de Mayence, Rue Saint-Honore, near the Place Vendome, one morning received a visit from a confide... ...ds of the sergeants of La Rochelle; who, at this day, are guillotining the republicans who take up arms against the throne as established by the revol... ...d on black bread and cold water, and fettered in accordance with the time- honored traditions of the treatment lavished on captives. His cell, under t...

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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... ...ntly, the last election of Francois Keller had been dis- turbed by certain republicans, whose red caps and long beards had not, however, seriously ala... ...e Gondreville, the Keller Bros., the Cinq-Cygnes, or even, the King of the French. The numerous partisans of old Gondreville, the king of the departme... ... Grevin’s brother-in-law, a miller named Laurent Goussard, the head of the republicans of Arcis, the two assistant mayors, the printer and publisher o... ...me, progress is fraternity re-established between the members of the great French family. We cannot conceal from ourselves that many sufferings—” At t...

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...The Brotherhood of Consolation by Honore de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State El... ...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... ... Electronic Classics Series Publication The Brotherhood of Consolation by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of th... ...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... ...l religion was so thor- oughly blended with all that is most majestic in a French woman that Godefroid resolved to leave no stone unturned to make him... ...ometimes quite ferocious towards grass and flow- ers. One of the tenderest republicans of those days was heard to assert that the best of human beings... ... had it protested, and sued Mongenod for me. Meantime the disasters of the French armies had produced such depreciation of the Funds that investors co...

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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... ...ntury in which men and things bore the characteristics of simplicity which French manners and customs are losing day by day. Follow the wind- ings of ... ...s a master-cooper, able to read, write, and cipher. At the period when the French Republic offered for sale the church property in the arrondissement ... ...the Empire he was called Monsieur Grandet. Napoleon, however, did not like republicans, and superseded Monsieur Grandet (who was supposed to have worn...

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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... ...Before reaching this enclosure from the height of an emi- nence such as we Frenchmen rather conceitedly call a moun- tain, at the foot of which lies t... ..., whiter than the starry jas- mine that climbed the balustrade,—a woman, a Frenchwoman born in Russia, who said as I approached her, “I had almost giv... ...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... ...y tone of the wantons of the old time, “people must live, even if they are republicans.” The terrible Mademoiselle Cochet, her maid and female vizier,...

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...Cousin Betty by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by James Waring A Penn State Electronic Classics Series ... ... 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... ...the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Cousin Betty by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec- tr... ... to be as great as he; but every form of greatness is famil- iar to you. A French savant could make a reputation, earn a professor’s chair, and a doze... ...er in almond-paste, eau-de-Portu- gal, and hair-oil, and was only too much honored when my only daughter was married to the son of Monsieur le Baron H... ...fumer, successor to Cesar Birotteau at the /Queen of the Roses/, Rue Saint-Honore,” added Crevel, in mocking tones. “Deputy-mayor, captain in the Nati... ...ris is a town whither every man of energy—and they sprout like saplings on French soil—comes to meet his kind; talent swarms here without hearth or ho... ...ater was a dead man. Such men are the glory of the party they support. T o Republicans, the Marshal was the ideal of patriotism; and they all attended...

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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... ...k of the Seine as it was under Charles IX. Why should not the historian of French society, a new Old Mortality, endeavor to save these curious express... ...igitte’s eyes Jerome was the handsomest and most charming man in the whole French Empire. T o keep house for this cherished brother, to be initiated i... ...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 ... ...o protect even its most devoted servants (witness the Gisquet affair), the republicans have ended by ruining Cerizet. I tell you this to explain how i... ...tence he received; declaring it to be a revengeful plot on the part of the republicans, who, he said, would never forgive him for the hard blows he ha...

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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... ...aie took it upon himself, and there fol- lowed the duel which enriched the French language with the expression coup de Jarnac.” “Oh! does it go so far... ...to find out that he was an assistant in a perfumer’s shop in the Rue Saint Honore, no further back than 1814.” “Tut, tut, tut!” said Bixiou, “do not t... ... Normanisms nor Gascon; he spoke pure and 16 The Firm of Nucingen correct French, and tied his cravat correctly (like Finot). He had neither father n... ...low with a confiding disposition, incapable of say- ing ill of any one who honored him with an admittance to his house, too staunch to be a diplomatis... ...lis, forsooth, and the octroi duties accord- ingly were insanely high. The Republicans got wind of this bread riot, they organized the canuts in two c...

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...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...

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...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 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... ... Series Publication The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...ipalities, to whom belongs the title of highness. The disdain shown by the French nobility for the title of prince, and the reasons which caused Louis... ...caused Louis XIV. to give supremacy to the title of duke, have pre- vented Frenchmen from claiming the appellation of “high- ness” for the few princes... ... a greater than he. Be careful not to think him one of those narrow-minded republicans who would like to re- store the Convention and the amenities of... ...ose of conquest, which formerly feudalized it. From this point of view the republicans came nearest to his idea. That is why he lent 23 Balzac them h...

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...The Magic Skin by Honore de Balzac Translated by Ellen Marriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Serie... ...age A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Magic Skin by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Magic Skin by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ... State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Magic Skin by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ... for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Magic Skin by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, the Pennsylvania State University,... ...e file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Magic Skin by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, the Pennsylvania State University, Electr... ...ed unmoved and imperial with an air-pump thrust into one eye. Portraits of French sheriffs and Dutch burgomasters, phlegmatic now as when in life, loo... ...ineteenth century; the time and place made sorcery impossible. The idol of French scepticism had died in the house just opposite, the disciple of Gay-... ...nk or two in the government booth, to doctor doctrinaires, and warm up old Republicans, to touch up the Bonapartists a bit, and revictual the Centre; ...