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...Excerpt: If you remember, madame, the pleasure your conversation gave to a traveler by recalling Paris to his memory in Milan, you will not be surprised to find him testifying his gratitude for many pleasant evenings passed beside you by laying one of his works at your feet, and begging you to protect it with your name, as in former days that ...

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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... ... your conversation gave to a traveller by recalling Paris to his memory in Milan, you will not be surprised to find him testifying his gratitude for m... ...former days that name protected the tales of an ancient writer dear to the Milanese. You have an Eugenie, already beautiful, whose intelli- gent smile... ...e. Without the intervention of a successful author, there is no successful ac- tress; Champmesle was due to Racine, like Mars to Monvel and Andrieux. ... ...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 ... ...he hotel where the debtor was recovering his strength. Thus Marie’s prompt ac- tion had really gained for Nathan a truce of four days. Both sisters pa...

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...Massimilla Doni by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Clara Bell and James Waring A Penn State Electroni... ...Massimilla Doni by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Clara Bell and James Waring A Penn State Electronic C... ...nn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Massimilla Doni by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and James Waring is a publication of the Penns... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication Massimilla Doni by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and James Waring is a publication of the Pennsylv... ... government. This little income spared our handsome Emilio the ignominy of ac- cepting, as many nobles did, the indemnity of a franc a day, due to eve... ...ilio, at once happy and uneasy at the thought of being alone with her, had ac- companied Massimilla to her retreat. And now this pretty pair had been ... ...he box belongs is in mourning. With very few exceptions, and those only at Milan, there is no light inside the box; they are illu- minated only from t... ...some are estimated at as much as thirty thousand lire; the Litta family at Milan own three adjoining. These facts sufficiently indicate the importance...

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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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...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... ..., and high antiq- uity. Of these families, the Marquis d’Esgrignon was the ac- knowledged head. His house became their cenacle. There His Majesty, Emp... ...m the sum without a word, after deducting the discount. The balance of the ac- 61 Balzac count was in du Croisier’s favor. But the gaming debt was as... ...s of V enetian art; there were most won- derful pages full of the Duomo at Milan, and again of Flo- rence; he described the Apennines, and how they di... ...ow he had been welcomed by the greatest Italian families of Genoa, T urin, Milan, Flo- rence, V enice, Rome, and Naples. This flattering reception he ...

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

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...Catherine dé Medici by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katherine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electroni... ...Catherine dé Medici by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katherine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic C... ...tate Electronic Classics Series Publication Catherine dé Medici by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katherine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penns... ...e Electronic Classics Series Publication Catherine dé Medici by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katherine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...a passage; or (accord- ing to Larauza) by the Mont Cenis and the Susa; or (ac- cording to Strabo, Polybius and Lucanus) by the Rhone, Vienne, Yenne, a... ...ad political genius. It was in the course of these studies that the writer ac- quired the conviction of Catherine’s greatness; as he became initiated ... ...imself to give to France three pearls of inestimable value, namely: Genoa, Milan, and Naples.” The Pope left Sebastiano Montecuculi to present himself... ... will also serve to explain the importance of the Sieur Lecamus, a furrier honored with the custom of two queens, Catherine dé Medici and Mary Stuart,... ...d testifying to the expeditions of our kings, to which the principality of Milan then belonged. Opposite to Francois I.’s wing was the chapel of the c...

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Excerpt: Scenes from a Courtesan?s Life by Honore de Balzac, translated by James Waring.

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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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...t Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Beatrix by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of th... ...ley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Beatrix by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penns... ... A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Beatrix by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...ment or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Beatrix by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania Stat... ... for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Beatrix by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...r the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Beatrix by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...e table beside the lamp, with infantine eagerness, and the manner of a man ac- 32 Balzac customed to perform this little service. A knock at the oute... ...ebrated women of the nineteenth century, was long supposed to be a man, on ac- 53 Beatrix count of the virility of her first writings. All the world ... ...ed free-stone, the like of which adorns the European streets of Amsterdam, Milan, Stockholm, Lon- don, and Moscow, architectural steppes where the win...

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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... ...eation of the municipal com- mission “del ornamento” which superintends at Milan the architecture of street facades, and to which every house owner is... ... bestowed upon them opera tickets, when he needed some extra indulgence on ac- count of his frequent absence. Rehearsals took half the time that he ou... ... than her own mother. From 1833 to 1840 she received a brilliant education ac- cording to the ideas of the bourgeoisie. The best music-mas- ters made ... ...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 ... ...d upon the meaning of the young Provencal barrister, declaring that men so honored by the confidence of the government should imitate royalty and enco...

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Excerpt: Sons of the Soil by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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...Letters of T wo Brides by Honoré de Balzac Translated by R. S. Scott A Penn State Electronic Classics Series... ...Letters of T wo Brides by Honoré de Balzac Translated by R. S. Scott A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...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 ... ...Electronic Classics Series Publication Letters of Two Brides by Honoré de Balzac, trans. R. S. Scott is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State Uni... ...d. “Perhaps you hope that it may mean marriages for me!” For sole reply he honored me with a meaning look. For some days he has amused himself with te... ...francs. Your daughter weeps, but bows to the unquestioned authority of her honored parent. Some people are unkind enough to say that, behind her tears... ...we shall spend the first fortnight of December, and ar- rive in Paris, via Milan and T urin, for January. Our journey is a perfect honeymoon; the sigh... ...sts and repeated the prayers for the dead. The cruel pangs I suffered were ac- cepted by me as a rightful punishment; and yet, when I saw on his calm ... ...nd bearing with you the harvest of good deeds which, in his name, you will ac- 167 Balzac complish here. I scribble these hasty lines in all the bust...

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...S COLLECTED FROM THE ABBEYS OF TOURAINE VOLUME III: THE THIRD TEN TALES by HONORE DE BALZAC THIRD TEN TALES A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...CTED FROM THE ABBEYS OF TOURAINE VOLUME III: THE THIRD TEN TALES by HONORE DE BALZAC THIRD TEN TALES A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publicati... ...D FROM THE ABBEYS OF TOURAINE VOLUME III: THE THIRD TEN TALES by HONORE DE BALZAC THIRD TEN TALES A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication ... ...d from the Abbeys of Touraine: Volume Three: The Third Ten Tales by Honore de Balzac is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Porta... ...rom the Abbeys of Touraine: Volume Three: The Third Ten Tales by Honore de Balzac is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable... ...hat the ladies were melancholy also, and noted the fact that they were all ac- quainted with the mysteries of matrimony. “Did I not see the Abbot of T... ...or a moment but that he would commence by depriving Monsoreau of his head, ac- cording to a practice common in Sicily under similar circum- stances. B... ...bout 10 years of age, parted company with the others, and near the town of Milan suddenly appeared again, but with- out the boy. Now in the evening, a... ...izen.” The landlady, who was the most shameless inhabitant of the duchy of Milan, went into the chamber where the Sire de La V augrenand and the Germa...

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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- ... ...e file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Cousin Pons by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec- tro... ...l in Italy after the residence in Rome came to an end. He had seen Venice, Milan, Flo- rence, Bologna, and Naples leisurely, as he wished to see them,... ...ch is human nature.” “Very well,” Mme. de Marville said, laughing, “I will ac- cept your present.—Cecile, my angel, go to Madeleine and see that dinne... ...the envious. Popinot himself, modest though he was, had, as has been seen, ac- cepted the title of count, “for his son’s sake,” he told his nu- merous... ...e Marville, announced by Mme. Cibot, was an event in the house. Pons, thus honored for the first time in his life saw reparation ahead. “At last, my d...