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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 deputy from Arcis in the Chamber....

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...t Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publi... ...s by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...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 Ar... ...ever since the revolution of July Madame Beauvisage has aspired to live in Paris. Obliged to stay here 9 Balzac as long as her father lives, she has ... ... to the great satisfaction of won- der-stricken idlers in the streets. The arrondissement of Arcis-sur-Aube then found itself in a singular position. ... ...sing revolt. In order not to compromise the influence of his family in the arrondissement of Arcis, that old statesman would doubtless propose for can... ...“Arcis shall be no longer a rotten borough!” he said, “or I’ll emigrate to Paris.” Flatter the passions of the moment and you will always be a hero, e... ...receded this brilliant transformation. Leaving Paris on the evening of May 1st, I arrived at Arcis, according to my father’s directions, on the follow...

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...Excerpt: The malady of the age. On a fine evening in the month of September, 1836, a man about thirty years of age was leaning on the parapet of that quay from which a spectator can look up the Seine from the Jardin des Plantes to Notre-Dame, an...

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...meley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Brotherhood of Consolation by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a... ...n by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...rselves on the quarter-deck, as it were, of a gigantic vessel. We dream of Paris from the days of the Romans to those of the Franks, from the Normans ... ...he Hotel de Ville tells of revolutions; the Hotel-Dieu, of the miseries of Paris. After gazing at the splendors of the Louvre we can, by taking two st... ...ituated in the district of Saint-Savin, 78 The Brotherhood of Consolation arrondissement of Mortagne. Several of the most horrible events of the rebe... ...re not guilty of the crimes charged in this indictment. Done at Caen, this 1st of December, 180—. (Signed) Baron Bourlac, Attorney-General. X PRAY F... ...carry it on. So, for the last year we have a physician of our own in every arrondissement in Paris. Each of us takes general charge of 107 Balzac fou... ...rondissement in Paris. Each of us takes general charge of 107 Balzac four arrondissements. We pay each physician three thousand francs a year to take...

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...Excerpt: IN 1828, at about one o?clock one morning, two persons came out of a large house in the Rue du Faubourg Saint- Honore, near the Elysee-Bourbon. One was the famous doctor, Horace Bianchon; the other was one of the most elegant men in Paris, the Baron de Rastignac; they were friends of long...

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...mmission in Lunacy by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...us doc- tor, Horace Bianchon; the other was one of the most elegant men in Paris, the Baron de Rastignac; they were friends of long standing. Each had... ...ischief, and whom he may belie without harmful re- sults. Fancy Mahomet in Paris in the nineteenth century! His wife would be a Rohan, a Duchesse de C... ...he world of learning. It is now one of the dirtiest streets of the Twelfth Arrondissement, the poorest quarter of Paris, that in which two-thirds of t... ...e narrowness of the street. This old tenement was known to all the twelfth arrondissement, on which Provi- dence had bestowed this lawyer, as it gives... ...be produced. Many times has M. d’Espard spoken of the judge of the Twelfth Arrondissement as a mandarin of the third class; he often speaks of the pro... ...of arrears. The landlord forthwith claimed his quarter’s rent from January 1st by sending in a receipt, which the porter’s wife had amused herself by ...

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...Excerpt: Lucien had gone to Paris; and David Sechard, with the courage and intelligence of the ox which painters give the Evangelist for accompanying symbol, set himself to make the large fortune for which he had wished that evening down by the Charente...

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... Eve and David by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... introduces Eve’s brother, Lucien. Part two, A Distinguished Provincial at Paris, centers on Lucien’s life in Paris. In many references parts one and ... ... combined under the title Lost Illusions. EVE AND DAVID Lucien had gone to Paris; and David Sechard, with the cour- age and intelligence of the ox whi... ... and immensely profitable discovery; and after his brother- in-law went to Paris, he became more and more absorbed in the problem which he had set him... ...up?” The Shepherd’s Calendar ought by rights to have been ready before the 1st of January, but Cerizet was working unaccount- ably slowly; all the wor... ...statement of her claims on the estate in the pres- ence of a notary on the 1st of August. While Petit-Claud was busy securing the household prop- erty... ...e of the most influential statesmen of the dynasty, deputy and mayor of an arrondissement in Paris. David Sechard’s discovery has been assimilated by ...

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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 ...

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...e by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katherine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...tor, Hazleton, PA 18202- 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...f the Clergeot division, and later, in 1828, collector of taxes in a Paris arrondissement. He also received the cross of the Legion of honor, to enabl... ...first re- view. Phellion proved to be one of the most respected men in the arrondissement. He had one daughter, now married to a school-teacher in the... ...d sum of money and the opportunity to buy his present post of clerk in the arrondissement. This man, not very honorable, and known to be a spy in the ... ...lacarded about Paris. For several weeks the ministry, called that of March 1st, had been in power. Brigitte was in a charming humor. She had been conv... ... “You will have that as soon as you are made a municipal councillor on the 1st of May. Only, my good friend, I must beg you, and you, too, dear aunt, ... ... fact, he only needed sixty more votes to make his election unanimous. May 1st Thuillier joined the municipal body and went to the Tuileries to congra...

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...Excerpt: It is neither to the Roman Prince, nor to the representative of the illustrious house of Cajetani, which has given more than one Pope to the Christian Church, that I dedicate this short portion of a long history; it is to the learned commentator of Dante....

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...on Cousin Betty by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of lit- ... ...the Baron knows nothing of it as yet; for it is the same in the Thirteenth Arrondissement as in every other: the lover, like the husband, is last to g... ...rneffe had entertained Monsieur Crevel, who by that time was Mayor of his /arrondissement/ and Officer of the Legion of Honor. Crevel had hesitated; h... ...we need, and that it is a fortnight on the way here, that brings us to the 1st of September. “If you can act decisively within that time, you will hav... ...ll stand between us and the law? “If your commissioner arrives here by the 1st of Sep- tember, and you have given him your orders, sending by him two ... ...d as good as a young man? He will 303 Balzac marry you (in the Thirteenth Arrondissement) and be very kind to you; he will place seven thousand franc... ...’s marriage to Mademoiselle Agathe Piquetard, solemnized at Isigny, on the 1st February 1846. “Parents may hinder their children’s marriage, but chil-...

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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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...x by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ts which he painted of human nature. In “The Great Man of the Provinces in Paris” some like- nesses were imagined: Jules Janin in Etienne Lousteau, Ar... ...culiar character- istics. For lack of quick and regular communication with Paris, scarcely connected by wretched roads with the sub-prefec- ture, or t... ...d with the rest of France by two roads only: that coming from Savenay, the arrondissement to which it belongs, which stops at Saint-Nazaire; and a sec... ...second road, leading from Vannes, which connects it with the Morbihan. The arrondissement road establishes communication by land, and from Saint-Nazai... ...s was not blamed by any one for marry- ing, so to speak, in the thirteenth arrondissement, a substi- tute for his wife. Let us sketch the four periods... ...efore the famous treaty of Lon- don which overturned the ministry of March 1st. Arthur gained two hundred thousand francs by that transaction and Aure...

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...Excerpt: The autumn of the year 1803 was one of the finest in the early part of that period of the present century which we now call ?Empire.? Rain had refreshed the earth during the month of October, so that the trees were still green and leafy...

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...Excerpt: In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of the principles of government that were essential t...

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... One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reeve is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...by Alexis Charles Henri Clerel de T ocqueville, a French nobleman, born at Paris, July 29, 1805. Bred to the law, he exhibited an early predilection f... ...heir European contemporaries. At the period of their first emigrations the parish system, that fruitful germ of free in- stitutions, was deeply rooted... ...rates of every kind, rated themselves, and levied their own taxes.* In the parish of New England the law of representation was not adopted, but the af... ...sion of the countries in America has considerable analogy with that of the arrondissements of France. The limits of the counties are arbitrarily laid ... ...s and the Union with respect to the Indians, it is neces- sary to consult, 1st, “The Laws of the Colonial and State Governments relating to the Indian...

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...THEOLOGICAL ESSAYS AND OTHER PAPERS BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY A A A A AUTHOR OF UTHOR OF UTHOR OF UTHOR OF UTHOR OF C C C C CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP... ...UTHOR OF UTHOR OF UTHOR OF C C C C CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP ONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP ONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP ONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP ON... ...LISH OP ONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP ONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OP ONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EA IUM-EA IUM-EA IUM-EA IUM-EATER TER TER TER TER, ET ,... ...lude? According to my own view, four.* I will state them, and number them. 1st. A form of worship, a cultus. 2dly. An idea of God; and (pointing the a... ...Egypt, the duty of the translation devolved, en- joyed a double advantage: 1st, as being the only language then spoken upon earth that could diffuse a... ...d to be concerned in supporting the man who, in this sort of judg- ment of Paris, had solemnly awarded the prize of superiority to the remoter potenta... ...esented, in the ordinary modern versions, as dying by a double death—viz., 1st, by a suicidal death: ‘he went and hanged himself’—this is the brief ac... ...erywhere as at this day it is in Persia. A Persian ambassador to London or Paris might boast that, in his native Iran, no such spectacles existed of h... ...sophic sagacity upon a neglected province of history, indispensable to the arrondissement of Pagan archaeology. To return to the Electronic Classics S...