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...riage A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Distinguished Provincial at Paris (Lost Illusions Part II) by Honore de Balzac, trans. El... ...or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Distinguished Provincial at Paris (Lost Illusions Part II) by Honore de Balzac, trans. El... ...e University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac A Distinguished Provincial at Paris (Lost Illusions Part II) by Honore de Balzac T ranslate... ...she continued, indicating another box; “she is the wife of a contractor, a banker, a city man, a broker on a large scale; he forced his way into socie... ...ous beings, whom the newspapers treated with as much gravity as matters of national interest. To be a dramatic au- thor, to have a play produced on th... ...d on hand-made paper, but they nearly all of them come down at last to the banks of the Seine. You may study their range of notes there any day if you... ...id Etienne, turning to his friend, “you would see an oak counter from some bankrupt wine merchant’s sale, and a tallow dip, never 100 A Distinguished... ...ropen- sities, and spoke of the forthcoming Archer of Charles IX. as “anti-national” in its tendency, the writer siding with Catholic cut-throats agai...

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...to an even less glorious future, for the course of trade lies on the right bank of the Loire. The sketch here given shows that Sancerre will be left m... ... the two bridges connecting it with Cosne. Sancerre, the pride of the left bank, numbers three thou- sand five hundred inhabitants at most, while at C... ...d to his elder brother. During the Revolution Moise Piedefer bought up the nationalized land, pulled down abbeys and churches with all the zeal of his... .... 3—that is to say, to the third floor, to a small room where he found his provincial concocting a cup of coffee over his bed- room fire. “Is it to Mo... ... King’s idea—and France does him scant justice—is to create a peerage as a national insti- tution analogous to the English peerage. T o realize this g... ... economy and an indemnity paid him for the estate belonging to his father, nationalized and sold in 1793, by the year 1827 the little man could realiz... ... use his own expression, he was able to purchase the estate of Anzy on the banks of the Loire, about two leagues above Sancerre, and its magnificent c... ...e de la Baudraye’s drawing-room a sort of oasis where there was a truce to provincial life. As to Monsieur de Clagny, the Public Prosecutor, his admir... ... /little/ de la Baudraye became a byword for laughter. T o understand this provincial witticism, readers may be reminded of the Bailli de Ferrette—som...

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...f a thing: the Commune (Municipality) of Paris, which is already here; the National Convention, which shall in few weeks be here. The Insurrectionary ... ... lucky!) the Electors shall begin electing Deputies; and so an all-healing National Convention will come to- gether. No marc d’argent, or distinction ... ...ry rendezvous for them; in that void Palace of the Tuileries, now void and National, and not a Palace, but a Caravansera. As for the Spontaneous Commu... ...be ex- pelled: the light of the Mighty Mother is burning not red but blue!—Provincial Daughter-Societies loudly disapprove these things; loudly demand... ...ople; and right glad were Lyons, were Bourdeaux, Rouen, Marseilles, as yet Provincial Towns, to welcome us in their turn, and become a sort of Capital... ...ats and jealousies have arisen; fevering the whole Republic! De- partment, Provincial Town is set against Metropolis, Rich against Poor, Culottic agai... ...leful, but her eye kindling! And Fournier l’Americain is busy, and the two Banker Freys, and Varlet Apostle of Liberty; the bull-voice of Marquis Sain... ...the sake of one’s country? Isnard, repentant of that search on which river-bank Paris stood, declares himself ready to demit. Ready also is Te- Deum F... ...Frey! But he lies in Prison; and his two Jew-Austrian Brothers-in-Law, the Bankers Frey, lie with him; waiting the urn of doom. Let a National Convent...

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................................................... 216 Chapter 2.5.X. Petion-National-Pique. .............................................................. ..., regarnished into a golden Royal Resi- dence; and Lafayette with his blue National Guards lies encompassing it, as blue Neptune (in the language of p... ...rds in the Riding-hall, named Manege, close on the Tuileries: there does a National Assembly apply itself to the miraculous work. Successfully, had th... ...ter all, does not this Assignat business speak volumes for modern science? Bankruptcy, we may say, was come, as the end of all Delusions needs must co... ...replaced , be dispensed with! To such length has modern machinery reached. Bankruptcy, we said, was great; but indeed Money itself is a standing mirac... ...t, “Madame, from the Province your ancestors reigned over.” He that happy ‘Provincial Advocate, ’ now Provincial Federate, shall be rewarded by a sun-... ...faced with red’ of a National Guardsman, than the dull black and gray of a Provincial Advocate, which in workdays one was used to. For the same thrice... ... itself, so to speak, ‘un- der the cloud of night, ’ depart ‘down the left bank of the Seine, ’ to seek refuge elsewhere; this ground having clearly b... ...te: the very tax-gatherer has forgotten his cunning: in this and the other Provincial Board of Management (Directoire de Departmente) it is found advi...

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...ness (who held the annuity papers) quarterly. In truth, one of the Alencon bankers paid him every three months one hundred and fifty francs, sent down... ... Goritza) to the many dull people who related to him the petty miseries of provincial life,—an egg ill-boiled for breakfast, coffee with feathered cre... ... ruin himself for a mis- tress. Instead of the choicest bonbons wrapped in bank-bills, he gallantly presented paper-bags full of toffee. Let us say to... ... self without means on the death of his father, he went, like other ruined provincials, to Paris. On the breaking out of the Revolution he took part i... ... fully understood each other; but in spite of the shrewd observation which provincials bestow on the petty interests of their own little centre, no on... ...oung man took to rambling among the picturesque regions of the Sarthe, the banks of which are much frequented by sketchers who come to Alencon for poi... ... the guillotine, because less violent. The peerage without hered- ity; the National Guard, which puts on the same camp-bed the corner grocer and the m...

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...honor with duties to dis- charge. Their fief had always been their domain. Provincial nobles were they in every sense of the word; they might boast of... ...d in a country town. His re- buff had simply ruined him with the malicious provincials among whom he had come to live, thinking to rule over them. It ... ...a Grandlieu) as ambassadress. Wherefore, those excluded from the miniature provincial Faubourg Saint-Germain nicknamed the salon “The Collec- tion of ... ...revival of class divisions which did so much harm to the country. The most national of all sentiments in France is vanity. The wounded vanity of the m... ... the Left. Du Croisier was in correspondence with the Brothers Keller, the bankers, the oldest of whom shone conspicuous among “the nineteen deputies ... ... as for the weak, they drop back into the old ruts when they find that the bank is too steep to climb. The springs of pride which lie in a great man’s... ...ned with a smile of amusement. “My dear Chesnel, just explain to me what a national debt is,” he answered. “If France has debts, egad! why should not ... ...ac yet there was ample wisdom shown in Chesnel’s choice of a depositary. A banker pays money to any one accredited to him so long as the money lasts; ...

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...nd to him: he lives in a temperate, reasonable, sociable cli- mate, on the banks, of a river which, it is true, some- times floods the country around ... ...to the core. No part of his admirable country is more characteristi- cally national. Normandy is Normandy, Burgundy is Bur- gundy, Provence is Provenc... ...e. Some of the most striking events of French history have occurred on the banks of that river, and the soil it waters bloomed for a while with the fl... ...different thorough-fare emerges, with its little cry of admiration, on the bank of the Loire. Saint Julian stands to-day in a kind of neglected hollow... ... marshal’s widow, it was, after the Restoration, sold to the trustees of a national subscription which had been 32 A Little Tour in France establishe... ...ich is virtually an invitation to the French people to repudiate, as their national ensign, that immortal tricolor, the flag of the Revolution and the... ... night, did not strike me as the prince of hotels. The inns in the smaller provincial towns in France are all, as the term is, commercial, and the com... ... tone of faded red brick and rusty stone. It is a charming encounter for a provincial by-street; one of those accidents in the hope of which the trave... ...White Horse only long enough to discover that it was an exceptionally good provincial inn, one of the best that I encountered during six weeks spent i...

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... front before the blazing heat of the day. The wast- ing edge of the cloud-bank always strives for, but seldom wins, the middle of the gulf. The sun—a... ...— invaluable fellow—with some Italian workmen, im- ported to work upon the National Central Railway, was at hand, and managed to snatch him away—for t... ...s that ever came to Sulaco with a general cargo before the building of the National Central. He left her on account of some very respect- able friends... ...e encroaching tyranny of Rosas, he had taken part, on great plains, on the banks of immense rivers, in the fiercest fighting perhaps the world had eve... ... Señor don Vincente Ribiera, the Dictator of Costaguana, had described the National Central Railway in his great speech at the turning of the first so... ...n, but all born in the country. His uncle went into politics, was the last Provincial President of Sulaco, and got shot after a battle. His father was... ...is business with an imperturbable steadi- ness, called him Excellency. The provincial Excellency assumed a weary supe- riority, tilting his chair far ... ... was by no means included in the bargain. He drew the line there. To these provincial autocrats, before whom the peaceable population of all classes h... ...rings. He was ruined in every way, but a man possessed of passion is not a bankrupt in life. Don Jose Avellanos desired passionately for his country: ...

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... bless the house. De Balzac. EUGENIE GRANDET I THERE ARE HOUSES in certain provincial towns whose aspect inspires melancholy, akin to that called fort... ...street without being examined; in fact formerly, when a stranger entered a provincial town he was bantered and made game of from door to door. From th... ...ouse of Monsieur Grandet. It is impossible to understand the force of this provincial ex- pression—the house of Monsieur Grandet—without giving the bi... ...s father-in-law to the surly republican who presided over the sales of the national domain, he ob- tained for a song, legally if not legitimately, one... ...ents of Monsieur Grandet; the other was Monsieur des Grassins, the richest banker in Saumur, in whose profits Grandet had a certain covenanted and sec... ...marry her dear Adolphe to Mademoiselle Eugenie. Monsieur des Grassins, the banker, vigorously promoted the schemes of his wife by means of secret serv... ...ns for his son. He is mayor of an arrondissement, a deputy, colonel of the National Guard, judge in the com- 14 Eugenie Grandet mercial courts; he di... ...thers and the fresh toilet of Madame des Grassins, the martial head of the banker, the faces of Adolphe, the president, the abbe, and the notary, say-... ...fervent about some meteor of the moment. Can it be that collective beings, nationalities, peoples, are devoid of memory? When Pere Grandet had shut th...

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... by a physician, this declaration had the force of a cannon-ball. When the National Assembly suppressed the sub-delegates, Lousteau and his family lef... ...never ceased to give Madame Bridau the same lively pleasure they afford to provincials who are new to Paris. Agathe, who was obliged to accept the for... ...arel with delight when she returned home, and resumed the simple garb of a provincial. One day in the week, Thursday, Bridau received his friends, and... ...ame Bridau could live suitably on an income of six thou- sand francs. With provincial good sense, she thought of changing her residence, dismissing th... ...one of the most disastrous swindles that ever appeared un- der the name of national subscription. Agathe gave ten thou- sand francs to start her son, ... ...tinctly proves that the interests of the party were purely selfish and not national, seeking power and noth- ing else. Neither men, nor occasion, nor ... ...another piece of news! Old Claparon is dead, and his son, who has become a banker, has ordered the cheapest kind of funeral for him. That fellow has n... ...vernment dreaded, and who ate up, to use a gambling term, the money of the bank,— never played in any other way. But before attaining this mea- sure o... ...g-houses and their gains rests upon three things: the impassibility of the bank; the even results called “drawn games,” when half the money goes to th...

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...meeting. He looked critically at Joan, and wished that she did not look so provincial or subur- ban in her high green dress with the faded trimming, s... ...the morning she ranged herself entirely on the side of the shopkeepers and bank clerks, and regarded all who slept late and had money to spend as her ... ...he teapot which she held upon the table, in token of applause. “Yes, these provincial centers seem to be coming into line at last,” said Mr. Clacton, ... ...e being derived from some chance view of a scene behind the counter at her bank, as she slipped the sovereigns into her purse. “At any rate, they have... ...hole meal, and appeared in the drawing-room as if she’d been sleeping on a bank of roses all day. She could do anything with her hands—they all could—... ...e told you,” Katharine added. “But I met Cyril only a fortnight ago at the National Gallery!” Mrs. Hilbery exclaimed. “I don’t believe a word of it,” ... ...eemed to her the most lavish and hospitable of hosts. After vis- iting the National Gallery, or Hertford House, or hearing Brahms or Beethoven at the ...

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...e height of a drum-major, and thus held up to view the comicalities of her provincial nature. She has never been out of Havre; she believes in the inf... ...evening. “Ah, you are here already,” said the notary, perceiving the young banker Gobenheim, a connection of Gobenheim- Keller, the head of the great ... ...nkfort on the Main, he was adored by Bettina Wallenrod, only daughter of a banker, and he married her with all the more enthusiasm because she was ric... ...Old Wallenrod, a decayed German baron (there is always a baron in a German bank) delighted to know that the handsome lieutenant was the sole represent... ... which Dumay cultivated; the family customs, as regular as clock-work, the provincial decorum, the games at whist while the mother knit- ted and the d... ...suffer in a sphere of higher things rather than flounder in the marshes of provincial life like her mother, the pledge she had made to herself never t... ...a chance to show the fleetness of his horses and dogs in the open. The two national systems were thus face to face and allowed to do their best under ...

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... Part one also introduces Eve’s brother, Lucien. Part two, A Distinguished Provincial at Paris, centers on Lucien’s life in Paris. In many references ... ...e agent, and Cointet Brothers, printers and paper manufacturers, were also bankers in all but name. This surreptitious banking sys- tem defies all the... ...ys- tem defies all the ingenuity of the Inland Revenue Depart- ment. Every banker is required to take out a license which, in Paris, costs five hundre... ...s so pressed for time that he signed for me.” Eve returned the bill to the bank messenger sent by the 33 Balzac Cointets. “We cannot meet it,” she sa... ...rom misfortune, the Govern- ment, strange to say! takes its share, and the national rev- enue is swelled by a tax on commercial failure. And the Bank?... ... to take this odious course. When a 64 Eve and David defaulter—to use the provincial term for a debtor, for they do not mince their words in the prov... ... scale, he takes sanctuary in Paris. Paris is a kind of City of Refuge for provincial bankrupts, an almost impenetrable retreat; the writ of the pursu... ...one kind of opinion and acted on another. There has been no consistency in national policy, nor in the conduct of individuals. You cannot be said to h... ... matters, so tricky are they in their dealings. In France the spectacle of national blunders has never lacked national applause for the past fifty yea...

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...he marriage of his brother the artillery officer to the daughter of a rich banker of Hamburg. It is well known what a fancy all Europe had for the spl... ...t magnificent estates in France, is situated about a mile from Arcis. This banker, recently made count and peer of France, ex- pected, no doubt, to tr... ...rough Arcis, a reaction against him set in. Although for thirty years this provincial Aristides possessed the confidence of the whole town,—having bee... ...he information of countries so unfortunate as not to know the blessings of national repre- sentation, and which are, therefore, ignorant by what intes... ...ad counted much, for her nephew, on the inheritance of his grandfather the banker of Hamburg. But when that old German died in 1826, he left his grand... ...species of mankind in this his terrestrial paradise, to create within it a provincial bour- geois, his hands never made a more perfect and complete ty... ...ght and left to the inhabitants, who gazed at him with the deference which provincials always testify to the richest man in their locality. “But there... ...entary discussions, salons, elections, railways, the Cafe de Paris and the National Guard—what time have we, if you please, to go to work?” “Beautiful... ...ther pretty speculation—with the rest of the money he bought stock in the ‘National,’ where I meet him every time I want to have a laugh over the repu...

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...ish reformation and his harem effectively started. When De Soto stood on the banks of the Mississippi, it was still two years before Luther’s death; e... ...rossed Life on the Mississippi Mark T wain 9 the country and reached the banks of the Mississippi. They went by way of the Great Lakes; and from G... ...night they one day came upon the footprints of men in the mud of the western bank—a Robinson Crusoe experience which carries an electric shiver with i... ...isolated communities is the pastime of my idle moments, the de struction of nationalities the serious business of my life! The boundless vastness of ... ...g as it should be wise enough not to carry the thing too far and provoke the national government into amending the licensing system, steamboat owners ... ...with the Natchez, is the best on record, and, inasmuch as the race created a national interest, we give below her time table from port to port. Left N... ...hing; and I think it is; for there are plenty of ladies and gentlemen in the provincial cities whose garments are all made by the best tailors and dre...

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...n country districts, intrenched in municipal councils, un- der arms in the national guard of every canton in France,— one result of the year 1830, whi... ... When I reached the shores of the Danube, opposite Lobau, I noticed on the bank, which is covered with turf, certain undulations that reminded me of t... ...e you?” —in the very tones with which he shouted to his cuirassiers on the banks of the Danube: “Men, we must die, and die well, since there’s nothing... ...he Lago Maggiore. In the middle ages the castle of Les Aigues stood on the banks of the Avonne. Of this old building noth- ing remains but the gateway... ...s in the air. ‘I’ve the good tobacco, it never shall be thine,’ that’s the national air of the rich man, hey? The peasant will always be the peasant. ... ...olution; the man who gave them possession of the soil and sold to them the national domains. His anointing was saturated with that idea.” “An idea to ... ...rney-general of the department, henceforth protected the timid woman. This provincial Fouquier-Tinville raised a false alarm of danger in the mind of ... ... at his heels to be able to stay where he was. This reticence, peculiar to provincials, was in this particular case amply justified by succeeding even... ...ter one of those bitter hatreds which are literally a part of existence in provincial life, the persistency, duration, and plots of which would astoni...

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...ommenced a portage of as many miles, which conducted the adventurer to the banks of the Hudson, at a point where, with the usual obstructions of the r... ...name of this beautiful sheet of water, used by the tribe that dwelt on its banks, would be “The Tail of the Lake.” Lake George, as it is vulgarly, and... ...Scotchman just named held the first, with a regiment of regulars and a few provincials; a force really by far too small to make head against the formi... ... the curiosity of most of the Europeans in the camp, though several of the provincials 13 James Fenimore Cooper were seen to handle it, not only with... ...t, so named after a powerful tribe of Indians, which formerly dwelt on its banks. Accident, or one of those unaccountable freaks which nature sometime... ...you speak of instruc- tion, and of a profession; are you an adjunct to the provincial corps, as a master of the noble science of defense and of- fense... ...rerogatory task of entering into a discussion of the comparative merits of national courtesy, Duncan cheerfully assented to supply the place of the ve...

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... 9 Balzac there not vinegar merchants and mustard men who com- mand in the National Guard and are very well received at the Palace? Let us imitate the... ...e, for which I shall sign notes to the order of Monsieur Charles Claparon, banker. He will pay the value, less the discount. So there are the three hu... ...s Cesar Birotteau became deputy-mayor and perfumer, retired officer of the National Guard, and chevalier of the Legion of honor. In bringing to light ... ...se grounds the worthy people of the arrondissement made him captain of the National Guard; but he was cashiered by Napoleon, who, according to Birotte... ...ening very elegantly dressed, came home late, and was seen at the balls of bankers and notaries. Such habits displeased Cesar, according to whose idea... ...mer, laughing. Roguin replied that he had won the money, at the house of a banker, from du Tillet, who confirmed the answer without blushing. Cesar, o... ...where, in villages, on doors of churches, all the best spots I can find in provincial towns! The oil shall sparkle, scintillate, glisten on every head... ...sarienne,” said Popinot. “My friend,” said Gaudissart, “you don’t know the provincials; there’s a surgical operation called by that name, and they are... ... to be made a judge because of his marriage to Ma- demoiselle Thirion.” “A provincial judge,” remarked Constance. “Monsieur Cardot, father-in-law of C...

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...Then why are your feelers different from ours? Don’t cuddle so.” “Don’t be provincial, Carissima. You can’t have all the world alike—yet.” “But why do... ... to it. Captain Purnall nods. There is heavy traffic hereabouts— the cloud-bank beneath us is streaked. with running fissures of flame where the Atlan... ... sinking like a log,” says Captain Purnall in an un- dertone. “Call up the Banks Mark Boat, George.” Our dip- dial shows that we, keeping abreast the ... ...ptain Hodgson watches the General Communicator. He has called up the North Banks Mark Boat, a few hundred miles west, and is reporting the case. “I’ll... .... It seemed to me a pretty sight, but Penfentenyou said it represented Our National Attitude. Lord Lundie’s summer resting-place we learned was a farm... ... G G G G All day long to the judgment-seat The crazed Provincials drew— All day long at their ruler’s feet H...

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...d vegetation of centuries, and black with loam, the stream that filled the banks nearly to overflowing, and the “fresh and boundless wood,” being all ... ...e wife of the latter in the other. The Mohican had already passed down the banks of the river by land, looking cautiously and with the skill of his pe... ...s foretell devilry and wickedness,” said the Path- finder, who had all the provincial horror of the holy symbol in question which then pervaded the co... ...incipal guides conferred apart for several minutes, when both ascended the bank, approached the indicated spot, and ex- amined the trail with the utmo... ...ad joined it since its arrival in the colonies. As a matter of course, the provincials were generally the most expert marksmen; and after a desultory ... ... An army can rely on nothing but its commissaries. The irregularity of the provincials has played the devil with the king’s service too often to be wi... ... circumspection; and I feel persuaded that Corporal M’Nab will sustain the national renown.” “Ask yer own father, Mistress Dunham; he is acquaint’ wit...