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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... ...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... ...he daughter of a rich banker of Hamburg. It is well known what a fancy all Europe had for the splendid troopers of Napoleon! In 1814, Madame Marion, h... ...France, ex- pected, no doubt, to transfer to his son, then thirty years of age, his electoral succession, in order to make him some day eligible for t... ...period he refused the honors of the mayor- alty on the ground of his great age, and finally, although the town, in order to manifest its affection for... ... as precious as that of Napoleon. The English merchants, in buying out the European markets, certainly got the better of the colossus who threatened t... ...se. Her hands were cov- ered with black silk mittens, and her feet were in bronze kid boots. This gala air, which gave her somewhat the appear- ance o...

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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... ...which rich men indulge, who then marry at the first stage of premature old age, and thus bring degeneracy into the highest circles of society . During... ...oned the step; however, finding himself still above ground in 1823, at the age of forty-three, a length of years which no doctor, astrologer, or midwi... ... 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... ...doubt, having known him—of whom it was said that he was the bravest man in Europe for daring to walk on his legs, and who was accused of putting lead ... ...th Etienne. She was elegantly dressed, as the journalist at once perceived—bronze kid boots, gray silk stockings, a muslin dress, a green silk scarf w...

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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: 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 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... ...on A Distinguished Provincial at Paris (Lost Illusions Part II) by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...plumage of the feathered tribes of India and America, instead of the sober European families. Those were two wretched hours that Lucien spent in the G... ...stinguished Provincial at Paris Marais, could be ruled out on the score of age; and hard upon the discovery of a distinction between morning and eveni... ...ed because Mme. de Bargeton did not seem to recognize him in his new plum- age; but when he stepped up to her, she smiled at him and said: “This has f... ...ac a third, Michel Chrestien, the great Republican thinker, who dreamed of European Federation, and had no small share in bringing about the Saint-Sim... ...ct, I vow and declare, for a captain of the Impe- rial Guard, those men of bronze—” “Well said, my little civilian, there are several kinds of con- tr... ...tten, on a pauper’s bier. As for the men whose brains are encompassed with bronze, whose hearts are still warm under the snows of experience, they are...

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

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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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...Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac Translator Ellen Marriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...n State Electronic Classics Series Publication Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...he file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, the Pennsylvania State University, Electr... ...lodging-houses and public institutions would see poverty and dullness, old age lying down to die, and joyous youth condemned to drudg- ery. It is the ... ...t known. But, before all things, the Rue Nueve-Sainte- Genevieve is like a bronze frame for a picture for which the mind cannot be too well prepared b... ...he house is completed by the portrait of its mistress. Mme. Vauquer at the age of fifty is like all women who “have seen a deal of trouble.” She has t... ...d good- natured of great cities. If the proud aristocracies of the rest of Europe refuse admittance among their ranks to a disrepu- table millionaire,... ...is left in stock after supplying the Great Mogul. All the crowned heads of Europe, including the Gr-r-rand Duke of Baden, have been anxious to get a s...

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...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 he were tracking some one. There was a smug expression about the mouth--he looked like a merchant who has just done a good stroke of business, o...

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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- ... ...or thereabouts, whom anybody might have credited with more than his actual age, was walking along the Boulevard des Italiens with his head bent down, ... ... dependent upon his earnings. Running about to give private lessons at his age!—Think of it. How many a mys- tery lies in that unromantic situation! B... ... royal crown above it. In the eighteenth century, all the crowned heads of Europe had rival porcelain factories, and workmen were kidnaped. Watteau de... ...some square to which La France should stand god- mother. The Quartier de l’Europe was a revival of the same idea; history repeats itself everywhere in... ...miracles of an art, alas! so fugitive. The inimitable lustre of Florentine bronze took all the varying hues of the light; the painted glass glowed wit... ...boxes, and out of politeness they went into ecstasies over some Florentine bronzes which they held in their hands when Mme. Cibot announced M. Brunner...

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

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...Ferragus Chief of the Devorants by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electroni... ...Ferragus Chief of the Devorants by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic C... ...ic Classics Series Publication Ferragus, Chief of the Devorants by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penns... ...Classics Series Publication Ferragus, Chief of the Devorants by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...ner; he con- versed affably, declared himself not more than forty years of age, and apparently belonged to the very highest social classes. The name w... ...not yet formed an opinion; also cut-throat streets, streets older than the age of the oldest dowagers, estimable streets, streets always clean, street... ...s epitomized; by night it is a dream of Greece. The rue Traversiere-Saint- Honore—is not that a villainous street? Look at the wretched little houses ... ... the morrow, indifferent to the fall or rise of stocks or the debts of all Europe. High privilege of love!—it crushes all things, all interests fall b... ...s, gazing at his daughter with dry eyes; his head you might have taken for bronze: he did not see Jules. The other man was Jacquet,—Jacquet, to whom M...

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...The Magic Skin by Honore de Balzac Translated by Ellen Marriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Serie... ...enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Magic Skin by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...e file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Magic Skin by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, the Pennsylvania State University, Electr... .... The rooms are filled with players and onlookers, with pov- erty-stricken age, which drags itself thither in search of stimu- lation, with excited fa... ... fair hair in its natural curls. He looked only about twenty-five years of age, and any trace of vice in his face seemed to be there by accident. A yo... ...ent on the security of his bare word, signed contracts in every capital of Europe, and left my gold with- out hesitation in savage wigwams. I have att... ...me candelabra lit up the slightest details of gilded friezes, the delicate bronze sculpture, and the splendid colors of the furniture. The sweet scent... ... clear to him. Dessert was served as if by magic. A huge epergne of gilded bronze from Thomire’s studio overshadowed the table. Tall statuettes, which... ...a celebrated artist had endued with ideal beauty according to conventional European notions, sus- tained and carried pyramids of strawberries, pines, ...