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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... ... Marcas by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and others 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 the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Z. Marcas by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and others, the Pennsylvania State University,... ...ch furnished lodgings? The students studied in the cafes, the theatre, the Luxembourg gardens, in grisettes’ rooms, even in the law schools—anywhere r... ... with a wonderful aptitude for apprehending the correlation between remote history and the facts of the present and of the future. In 1831, he told me... ...indispensable, while he himself would be trans- lated to the polar zone of Luxembourg. So he determined to put insurmountable obstacles in the way of ... ... happened?” “I will tell you in a few words—for this is not romance— it is history.” We saw no more of Marcas. The administration lasted for three mon...

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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... ...sions Part II) by Honore 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... ...nts had oc- curred while he slept; for reflection is an event in our inner history, and Mme. de Bargeton had been reflecting. About two o’clock that a... ...ld Mme. de Bargeton that he had found lodgings for her in the Rue Nueve-de-Luxembourg. Mme. de Bargeton informed her- self of the exact place, and fou... ...xcept the part of the Rue Saint-Honore which lies between the Rue Neuve-de-Luxembourg and the Rue de l’Echelle. He lay down in his miserable little ro... ... she looked like an old woman. He saw women whose names will appear in the history of the nineteenth century, women no less famous than the queens of ...

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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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...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... ...meley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Brotherhood of Consolation by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a... ...onic Classics Series Publication The Brotherhood of Consolation by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penns... ...n by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...e faults of his life. This dreamer was named Godefroid. Whoever reads this history will understand the reasons which lead the writer to use the Christ... ...the roof, and appeared to be in a dilapidated condition. Whoever knows the history of Paris, knows that the soil before and around the cathedral has b... ...fore, till they reached the middle of the great alley of the garden of the Luxembourg that Monsieur Bernard came up to the young man. “Pardon me, mons... ...from the cloister of the Chartreux which leads from the great alley of the Luxembourg to the rue d’Enfer. “Did you never, in your public functions, ob...

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Excerpt: The Two Brothers by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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...The T wo Brothers by Honore de Balzac T ranlated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic... ...The T wo Brothers by Honore de Balzac T ranlated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Cl... ...n State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Two Brothers by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penns... ...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... ...ence of four distinct political sys- tems. I cannot, therefore, place this history under the pro- tection of a more competent authority. Your name may... ... writer seems scarcely justified in placing them in the fore- front of his history; yet if they are not known, a man of Doctor Rouget’s stamp would be... ...d through the rue d’Enfer toward the Orleans highroad. When Agathe saw the Luxembourg, to which Philippe had been transferred, she could not refrain f... ...vealed the mother’s heart, whose thoughts were really in the prison of the Luxembourg. “He looks ill,” said Madame Hochon; “he is not at all like you....

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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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...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... ...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... ...ap- pearing with frightful rapidity. Here and there, in the course of this history of Parisian life, will be found preserved, some- times the type of ... ...s which made Mademoiselle Thuillier the owner of the house. CHAPTER II THE HISTORY OF A TYRANNY AT THE FALL of the Villele ministry, Monsieur Louis-Je... ...the means of success. It is so fine a day, will you not take a turn in the Luxembourg?” he added, as they reached the rue d’Enfer at the corner of Col... ...lle windows, which could be seen through the passage from the alley of the Luxembourg, where they were walking alone, in that immense tract trodden by...

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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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...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... ...t Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publi... ...tate Electronic Classics Series Publication The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penns... ...s by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ly there is no deputy from Arcis in the Chamber. Discretion, required in a history of contemporaneous man- ners and morals, dictates this precautionar... ...s for family interests, a whole region for a man.” Simon then reviewed the history of the Arcis elections for the last twenty years. While approving t... ...ival in Paris go at eight in the morning punctu- ally to the garden of the Luxembourg, Allee de l’Observatoire, fourth bench to the right, starting fr... ...in a pleasant little house in the rue de l’Ouest, behind the garden of the Luxembourg, one of the most retired quarters of Paris. We were received in ...

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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... ... Father Goriot 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... ...he file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, the Pennsylvania State University, Electr... ...y lamps, that Victorine’s eyes were red. Mme. Vauquer was listening to the history of the visit made that morning to M. T aillefer; it had been made i... ...imself in any house without first making himself acquainted with the whole history of its owner, and of its owner’s wife and family, so that he may av... ...ese reflections when he hap- pened on his friend Bianchon in the Jardin du Luxembourg. “What makes you look so solemn?” said the medical stu- dent, pu... ...aying a word?” Rastignac asked himself. He hurried along the alleys of the Luxembourg Gardens as if the hounds of justice were after him, and he alrea...

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

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

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...hapter 1 Exposition. Notwithstanding the discipline which Marechal Suchet had introduced into his army corps, he was unable to prevent a short period of trouble and disorder at the taking of Tarragona. According to certain fair-minded military men, this intoxication of victory bore a striking resemblance to pillage, though the marechal promptly suppressed it. Order being r...

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...meley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Juana by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penns... ...ey A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Juana by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...a by Honoré 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... ...or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Juana by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Juana by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...t all remarkable among these men of iron, who played, nevertheless, in the history we shall now relate, a somewhat important part. The first, a captai... ...ar as to suggest to him the idea of marrying her. He accordingly asked her history, and Perez very willingly told him the circumstances under which sh... ...nt-Germain to the last in the rue Saint-Lazare, between the heights of the Luxembourg and the heights of Montmartre, all that clothes itself and gabbl...

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...fore innocence; accepting each other for such as they were, without social prejudices,--criminals, no doubt, but certainly remarkable through certain of the qualities that make great men, and recruiting their number only among men of mark....

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...Excerpt: The talisman towards the end of the month of October 1829 a young man entered the Palais-Royal just as the gaming-houses opened, agreeably to the law which protects a passion by its very nature easily excisable. He mounted the staircase of one of the gam...

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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... ...The Magic Skin by Honore 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... ...e file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Magic Skin by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, the Pennsylvania State University, Electr... ...old!” All at once marble takes an animal shape, the dead come to life, the history of the world is laid open before you. After countless dynasties of ... ...ummon before me whole countries, places, extents of sea, the fair faces of history. In my imaginary sera- glio I have all the women that I have never ... ...109 Balzac “As it fell out, the weather was fine while we went through the Luxembourg; when we came out, some drops fell from a great cloud, whose pro... ...c business, advocates to the Palais de Justice, and peers of France to the Luxembourg; but one of the popularity-seeking min- isters of the Citizen Ki...

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

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...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 he were tracking ...

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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... ...n Cousin Pons 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... ... 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... ...tand god- mother. The Quartier de l’Europe was a revival of the same idea; history repeats itself everywhere in the world, and even in the world of sp... ...n his friend’s little trifles as a fish might take in a flower-show at the Luxembourg, sup- posing that it had received a ticket of admission. A certa... ...is wizened youth was the work of a stepmother. Herewith begins the curious history of a prodigal son of Frankfort-on-the-Main—the most extraordinary a...