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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The countryside and the man on a lovely spring morning in the year 1829, a man of fifty or thereabouts was wending his way on horseback along the mountain road that leads to a large village near the Grande Chartreuse. This village is the market town of a populous canton that lies within the limits of a ...

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...The Country Doctor by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell A Penn State Electro... ...by Honoré de Balzad, trans. Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell 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... ...y of Medea. The captain saw the placard, and did not fail to repair to the Theatre Francais that evening, to see the celebrated actress in her mytholo... ... well-doing. We know nothing of the civic virtue that led the great men of ancient times to serve their country in the low- est rank whenever they did... ...olidity, which added to the old-world appearance of the buildings with the ancient trees that stood about them, and the growth of plant life on the ro... ...later day, had given it back its true poetry by adapting it for the French theatre and putting it into the mouth of a page, who pours out his heart to... ...way of the Roman for several centuries. The Emperor had ceased to dwell in Rome when the Eternal City fell into the hands of barbar- ians. When the co... ...y that man; and it appeared that he was some connec- tion of Napoleon’s at Rome, for the Emperor claimed suc- cession there for his son. “So, after hi...

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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... ...Sunday excursions to Choisy, Soissy, Gentilly; she would have a box at the theatre when she liked, instead of waiting for the author’s tickets that on... ... much time on his hands if he sets himself to learn the repertory of every theatre, and to study the ins and outs of the labyrinth of Paris. To know i... ..., and wear a mask on entering into this game of grim earnest, where, as in ancient Sparta, you must snatch your prize without being detected if you wo... ...lory of her happiness. The most callous of her guests admired her as young Rome applauded some gladiator who could die smil- ing. It seemed as if soci...

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...Excerpt: When we think of the enormous number of volumes that have been published on the question as to where Hannibal crossed the Alps, without our being able to decide to-day whether it was (according to Whittaker and Rivaz) by Lyon, Geneva, the ...

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...Catherine dé Medici by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katherine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electroni... ...i 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... ... undertook in this direction a book (much too long) on the era of imperial Rome. If it had not been for the French Revolution, criticism applied to hi... ...by the same sentiment. At this epoch Venice had the commerce of the world; Rome had its moral govern- ment; Italy still reigned supreme through the po... ...ded France and the late scene of the mar- riage festivities had become the theatre of a cruel war. At the moment when Charles V . was put to flight, l... ...erine dé Medici, agreeing in this with her daughter- in-law, had allowed a theatre to be made of the great hall (afterwards arranged for the Parliamen... ... Ecco!” “You are right as to yourself, Albert; for they have given you the ancient title and duchy of de Retz.” “Now listen to me,” replied his brothe... ... many great and unknown kings, the rulers of this science, I stand for the ancient theories, not the new. I believe in the transforma- tions of matter...

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...Excerpt: In a Spanish city on an island in the Mediterranean, there stands a convent of the Order of Barefoot Carmelites, where the rule instituted by St. Theresa is still preserved with all the first rigour of the reformation brought about by that illustrious woman. Extraordinary as this may seem, it is none...

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...The Duchesse de Langeais by Honoré de Balzac A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Duchesse... ...e Balzac A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Duchesse de Langeais by Honoré de Balzac is a publication of the Pennsylvania State ... ...Publication The Duchesse de Langeais by Honoré de Balzac is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. 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... ...etry. So at least thought two dilettanti officers who must have missed the Theatre Favart in Spain. At last in the T e Deum no one could fail to disce... ...he Holy Father himself shall absolve you of your oath. I will surely go to Rome, I will entreat all the powers of earth; if God could come down from h... ...nce to grow a new head. If they lack the strength for this, they perish as Rome perished, and Venice, and so many other states. This distinction betwe... ...t, pent up together in the Faubourg Saint-Germain, where the spirit of the ancient court and traditions of by- gone feuds between the nobles and the C... ... with M. de Gondrand on the necessity of re-establishing the Church in its ancient splendour. And she talked brilliantly. The Church, she maintained, ...

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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...

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...Albert Savarus by Honoré de Balzac Translated by Ellen Marriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Series... ...enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Albert Savarus by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia Sta... ...Albert Savarus by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia 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... ...e file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Albert Savarus by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, the Pennsylvania State University, Electr... ...g. Is it knowledge to have learned geography from Guthrie, sacred history, ancient history, the history of France, and the four rules all passed throu... ...“Not so far as I know,” replied the man. “Prince and Prin- cess Colonna of Rome have taken Monsieur Jeanrenaud’ s place for three years; it is one of ... ...Legitimists. The show of hands at an election, like a dress rehearsal at a theatre, is the most deceptive thing in the world. Albert Savarus came home... ...on. From London Albert went in search of her to Naples, and from Naples to Rome, where she was now engaged to the Duc de Rhetore. When Albert suc- cee...

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...Excerpt: ENVOI. Felix de Vandenesse to Madame la Comtesse Natalie de Manerville: I yield to your wishes. It is the privilege of the women whom we love more than they love us to make the men who love them ignore the ordinary rules of common-sense. ...

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...The Lily of the Valley by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electroni... ...ott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Lily of the Valley by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a ... ...e Electronic Classics Series Publication The Lily of the Valley by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penns... ...y by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...e and for translation,— neither my father nor my mother was present in the theatre when I came forward to receive the awards amid general ac- clamatio... ...r. The first day we were to dine in the Palais-Royal, so as to be near the Theatre-Francais. In spite of the intoxi- cation such a programme of unhope... ...such a one as painters desire for their pictures. Surround this scene with ancient walnut-trees and slim young poplars with their pale- gold leaves; d... ...e delicacy of their passion, so charmingly rendered in the famous scene of Romeo and Juliet in which, with one stroke, Shakespeare’s genius depicted h... ...d to bring you together?” “Are you crazy, Amedee? I could go from Paris to Rome disguised as a valet; I would do the most unreasonable thing for your ...

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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... ...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... ...ned by the Institut at the time of the re-establishment of the Academie de Rome; he was M. Sylvain Pons, in fact—M. Sylvain Pons, whose name appears o... ... was now ending his days as the con- ductor of an orchestra in a boulevard theatre, and a music master in several young ladies’ boarding-schools, a po... ...ost defies the ambitious modern scientific investigator. In the second—the ancient Egyptians (we are told) invented incu- bator-stoves for hatching eg... ...isible sun called Vocation. To resume. The Government sent Sylvain Pons to Rome to make a great musician of himself; and in Rome Sylvain Pons acquired... ...s still composing, on scanty pay, for his own orchestra or for neighboring theatres. And yet, the worthy man did justice to the great masters of our d... ....—”And you, Mademoiselle Cleopatre!—attention!” she continued, tapping the ancient fowl on the beak. Then Mme. Fontaine began to think; for several se...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Pro and con monsieur de manerville, the father, was a worthy Norman gentleman, well known to the Marechael de Richelieu, who married him to one of the richest heiresses of Bordeaux in the days when the old duke reigned in Guienne as governor. The...

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...The Marriage Contract by Honore de Balzac Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic... ...The Marriage Contract by Honore de Balzac Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Cl... ...ate Electronic Classic Series Publication The Marriage Contract by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publica- tion of the Pen... ...by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publica- tion 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... ...apparent assumption which they create, Paul was bored to death among these ancients, unaware that the connections of his youth would eventually secure... ...e made of the ashes of I know not how many unknown and pulverized Londons, Romes, Venices, and Parises, I would write a book on mod- ern marriages mad... ...ication of his deeds to his clerks; he is the notary who goes to balls and theatres, buys pictures and plays at ecarte; he has coffers in which gold i... ...o you all happiness. Amuse yourself; continue your habits of luxury; go to theatres and operas, enjoy society and balls; I leave you free for all thin...

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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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...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... ...arch of diversion, for which they pay as they pay for the pleasures of the theatre, or of gluttony, or they come hither as to some garret where they c... ... a gambling saloon are not the opening ones. If Spain has bull-fights, and Rome once had her gladiators, Paris waxes proud of her Palais-Royal, where ... ...Etruscan vase? The Latin queen caressed her chimera. The whims of Imperial Rome were there in life, the bath was disclosed, the toilette of a languid ... ...ussian kopeck, a Scottish farthing, a single obolus or sestertius from the ancient world, or one piastre from the new, without of- fering you anything... ...t of virtue thus?” cried Cursy. “Virtue, the subject of every drama at the theatre, the denoument of 46 The Magic Skin every play, the foundation of ... ...least!” “So you want to discount heaven, a thoroughly commer- cial notion. Ancient religions were but the unchecked devel- opment of physical pleasure...

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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... ...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... ...no sound and came upon no indica- tion which revealed her presence in that ancient building. Supposing that she was the only daughter of the old coupl... ...em the cassock, gown, and sword. An Imperia built I forget which church in Rome in a frenzy of repentance, as Rhodope built, in earlier times, a pyram... ...e old Spanish honor, pure and spotless, which filled the precincts of that ancient house. Dona Lagounia had no child, and she was only too happy to ob... ... so truly does it recall the energetic diction of the father of our modern theatre. Yet the poet was forced to sacrifice it to the essentially vaudevi... ...hat at the moment when they entered the avenue a crowd just issuing from a theatre was passing at the upper end of the street. The cries of the dying ...

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Excerpt: Two Poets by Honore de Balzac, translated by Ellen Marriage.

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...e A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Two Poets by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ... Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Two Poets by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...ion Two Poets 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... ...or the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Two Poets by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec- ... ...hat have come and gone during the last forty years, have tried to tame the ancient families perched aloft like wary ravens on their crag; the said fam... ...meraries that represent rank and fash- ion at stage weddings in third-rate theatres. One of the queerest figures in the rooms was M. le Comte de Senon... ...in Patmos for us, or Belshazzar’s Feast, so that his lordship may see that Rome is still the Magna Parens of Virgil?” The women exchanged smiles at th... ...s marvelous than the other de- pendent invention of printing, was known in ancient times in China. Thence by the unrecognized channels of commerce the...