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...A Distinguished Provincial at Paris (Lost Illusions Part II) by Honore de Balzac Translated by Ellen Marr... ...A Distinguished Provincial at Paris (Lost Illusions Part II) by Honore de Balzac Translated by Ellen Marriage A Penn State Electronic Class... ...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... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...e the most of his personal advantages. Young men in Paris under- stand the art of presenting themselves quite as well as women. Lucien had inherited f... ...s of the great dead, the works of art which quicken the imagination in the galleries and museums here; nowhere else will you find great reference libr... ... dead, the works of art which quicken the imagination in the galleries and museums here; nowhere else will you find great reference libraries always o...
...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 ...
...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... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ... intra et extra muros before it is over. Will any one without the walls of Paris understand it? It is open to doubt. The only audience who could appre... ... inscription on the pedestal beneath de- termines the date of this work of art, for it bears witness to the widespread enthusiasm felt for Voltaire on... ...to pay some attention to appearances when such highly- respectable persons honored her house with their presence. She expended no small amount of inge... ...s that please him best, and form some idea of the treasures con- tained in galleries and museums. At this stage of his career a student grows eager an... ...him best, and form some idea of the treasures con- tained in galleries and museums. At this stage of his career a student grows eager and excited abou...
...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...
...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... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...let your mind travel, as you lie in bed, fifty leagues or thereabouts from Paris, along the great mail road which leads to the con- fines of Burgundy,... ... narrative of an astounded Parisian. At last I have seen a landscape where art is blended with nature in such a way that neither of them spoils the ot... ...n building is sur- rounded by clock-towers and sundry modern turrets, with galleries and vases more or less Greek. No harmony there, my dear Nathan! T... ...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... ...’s white on its back; for the sub-prefect told me there wasn’t one o’ them museums that had the like; but he knows everything, our sub-prefect,— no fo...
Excerpt: Sons of the Soil by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.
...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... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...h- elor emerging from a boudoir in the best of humors with himself; and in Paris this is the highest degree of self-satis- faction ever registered by ... ...ding drama is played gratuitously by the French nation in the interests of Art. In spite of the rashly assumed spencer, you would scarcely have though... ...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... ...was a unique collection of the finest mod- els. Pons, luckier than the art museums of Dresden and Vienna, possessed a frame by the famous Brustoloni—t... ...t paintings, pouring in through panes of glass that act as lenses. Picture galleries can only be lighted from above; Magus opens and closes his shutte...
...Excerpt: Towards three o?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 ...
...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... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...Dedication To Hector Berlioz. PREFACE THIRTEEN MEN were banded together in Paris under the Em- pire, all imbued with one and the same sentiment, all g... ...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 ... ...large and beautiful mansion in the rue de Menars, where a true feeling for art tempered the luxury which the financial world con- tinues, traditionall... ...- ered creature brought to the state of those monsters we see preserved in museums, floating in alchohol. Jules fancied that he saw above that face th... ...the cemetery. When they reached it they found (as at the doors of museums, galleries, and coach-offices) ciceroni, who proposed to guide them through ...
...Preface: Thirteen men were banded together in Paris under the Empire, all imbued with one and the same sentiment, all gifted with sufficient energy to be faithful to the same thought, with sufficient honor among themselves never to betray one another even if their int...