...ovinces, 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 Ba... ... Mademoiselle Mars. By calling to mind the most charming Celimene that the Theatre-Francais ever had, an excellent idea of Severine Grevin’s appearanc... ... and again, how difficult it would be to have permanent relations with the Duchesse de Carigliano, who lived in Paris and seldom came to Gondreville, ... ...re’s the princess and Mon- sieur d’Arthez, the Duc de Maufrigneuse and the duchess and the young marquis. In fact the chateau is full. They ex- pect M... ...vray. Half of this that man ob- tained, the other half went to the Duc and Duchesse de Chaulieu, my father and mother, who were entitled to it by law ... ... Marie-des-Anges, who in former days educated her daughter Berthe, now the Duchesse Georges de Maufrigneuse. But now we come to the most opposing and ... ...nt the servant threw open the door and announced dinner. After dinner, the theatre was proposed; that is one of the amusements that Parisians miss the... ...t divert his mind a little.” V 243 Balzac CHILDREN ON HIS RETURN from the theatre Monsieur Octave de Camps declared that it would be long before they... ... of Woman A Start in Life Beatrix The Unconscious Humorists Carigliano, Duchesse de At the Sign of the Cat and Racket A Distinguished Provincial ...

...ions 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....

... Honoré de Balzac A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Duchesse de Langeais by Honoré de Balzac is a publication of the Pennsylvan... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Duchesse de Langeais by Honoré de Balzac, the Pennsylvania State University... ...ylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac The Duchesse de Langeais by Honoré de Balzac IN A SPANISH CITY on an island in ... ...ently adapted to the purpose of their existence. Buried away in the 4 The Duchesse de Langeais loneliest valleys, hanging in mid-air on the steepest ... ... but one series of poems in action, a man who all his life long had 6 The Duchesse de Langeais lived romances instead of writing them, a man pre-emin... ...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...

...f the good old times when the Gray Musketeers were the terror of the Paris theatres, when they horsewhipped the watch and drubbed servers of writs, an... ...name and reputation for wealth. He went to the Marquise d’Espard’s, to the Duchesses de Grandlieu, de Carigliano, and de Chaulieu, to the Marquises d’... ...d out into the world of pleasure. Introduced at the Elyess-Bourbon, at the Duchesse d’Angouleme’s, at the Pavillon Marsan, he met on all sides with th... ...idame introduced his young friend to one of the most amiable and frivolous duchesses of the day, a lady whose ad- ventures caused an explosion five ye... ...d; they chafe because they are left in peace. This woman was, in fact, the Duchesse de Maufrigneuse, a daughter of the d’Uxelles; her father-in-law wa... ...e Princesse de Cadignan for 53 Balzac some years to come. A friend of the Duchesse de Langeais and the Vicomtesse de Beauseant, two glories departed,... ...fact, the opera girl is an almost mythical being. As things are now at the theatres, dancers and actresses are about as amusing as a declaration of th... ... together, but this was early in fine summer mornings. Society, balls, the theatre, and gaiety filled the Count’s evening hours. Ev- erywhere Victurni... ...n de la reine; an angel at the Porte Saint-Martin, at the little boulevard theatres, at the masked balls, which she en- joyed like any schoolboy. She ...

...nal govern- ment is in bonds. The reader may therefore understand that the Duchess was asking her husband what place among the political rulers of the... ...in such cases,—accepted a lower political station. This had displeased the Duchess, who was ambitious both on her own behalf and that of her lord,—and... ...ncountered further official degrada- tion, very much to the disgust of the Duchess. And it was not the way with her Grace to hide such sorrows in the ... ...was not ripe enough to allow him to make any answer. ‘Of course,’ said the Duchess, ‘you should keep the secret. The editors of the evening papers hav... ...asked. ‘Joint undersecretary with Lord Fawn, I should say,’ an- swered the Duchess. Then he told her that he believed an attempt would be made at a mi... ... must always be like this with me,’ he said, —and then he went back to the theatres and other ordinary conversation. ‘I suppose you’ve got to the bott... ...algar Square, and along the Strand, and up some dirty streets by the small theatres, and so on to Holborn and by Bloomsbury Square up to T ottenham Co...

...iles long and sixty feet high; they must have a fairyland at some fourteen theatres every night, and a succession of panoramas and exhibitions of the ... ... have been reversed. An incident will illustrate the paradox. Two charming duchesses were chatting with the above- mentioned great diplomatist. The la... ... At last, after about ten minutes the Prince was called in. He saw the two duchesses confront- ing doubt with its thousand facets, unable to decide be... ... a College Royal, a well-read man with a taste for art, or angling, or the theatre, and consumed, it may be, with a desire to be M. Cunin- Gridaine’s ...

...the base of the Tyrolese Alps, and purchased in the previous spring by the Duchess Cataneo. The house, erected by Palladio for the Piepolo family, is ... ... plots,—this lavish prodigality was in perfect keeping with the loves of a duchess and a handsome youth, for they are a poem far removed from the coar... ...t the loins with scarlet stuff, and holding in one hand a parasol over the Duchess’ head, and in the other the train of her long skirt, while she list... ...alas! in this fairy palace, not unlike that of the Peschieri at Genoa, the Duchess Cataneo obeyed the edicts of Victorine and the Paris fashions. She ... ...side of a table still strewn with the remains of an elegant breakfast, the Duchess, lounging in an easy-chair, left her lover the master of these musl... ...an opera by Garcia that was then being played by an Italian company at the theatre in the Rue Lauvois. She was so beautiful that a Naples guardsman, h... ...ks of some great painters of Heaven. In the evening the lovers went to the theatre. This is the way of Italian life: love in the morning; music in the... ... The Fenice was crowded. The five hours of the night that are spent at the theatre fill so important a place in Italian life that it is well to give a... ...cussed, the assignations held, the anecdotes and gossip that creep in. The theatre is an inexpensive meet- ing-place for a whole society which is cont...

...rribly.’— ‘Surely,’ I replied, taking up a submissive attitude, ‘Madame la Duchesse will not re- member Charlotte’s grievances?’— ‘Certainly,’ she ans... ...fluence over their heads. However terrible the words, they must be spoken: Duchesses are vanishing, and marquises too! As to the baronesses—I must apo... ...s, high-heeled slippers, and stiff bodices with a delta stomacher of bows. Duchesses in these days can pass through a door without any need to widen i... ...uessed the results of the Code he was so proud of. That man, by creat- ing duchesses, founded the race of our ‘ladies’ of to-day— the indirect offspri... ...tor’s son, or a banker’s bastard, he stares impertinently at the prettiest duchess, appraises her as she walks down- stairs, and says to his friend—dr... ... eyes, the forms which her bodice scarcely revealed in the morning. At the theatre she never mounts higher than the second tier, excepting at the Ital...

...k of countess for my daughter will be her ruin. You do as you like, make a duchess or a princess of her, but I can tell you it will not be with my wil... ...d dropping on both knees on the ground, he said, “Queen and prin- cess and duchess of beauty, may it please your haughtiness and greatness to receive ... ...ng themselves out for their wedding on the morrow. They advanced towards a theatre that stood on one side of the meadow decked with carpets and boughs... ...ause he had so lately taken the name. “Tell me, brother squire,” asked the duchess (whose title, however, is not known), “this master of yours, is he ... ...in the cradle, I mean in the press.” “I am rejoiced at all this,” said the duchess; “go, brother Panza, and tell your master that he is welcome to my ... ...nante the spur, and with an easy bearing advanced to kiss the hands of the duchess, who, having sent to summon the duke her husband, told him while Do...

...as become old-fashioned— was a girl of ten or twelve in the chorus of some theatre, more particularly at the opera, who was trained by young roues to ... ..., that of a woman inspired by a genuine passion. Were she La Torpille, the Duchesse de Maufrigneuse, or Madame de Serizy, on the lowest or high- est r... ... natural. I met him by chance, three months ago, at the Porte-Saint-Martin theatre, where I went one day when I had leave, for we had a day a week at ... ...nto my heart, and had so completely changed me, that on my return from the theatre I did not know myself: I had a horror of myself. Lucien would never... ...palaces, remotely imitated in those of the front of the Porte-Saint-Martin theatre. The least clear- sighted observer might have seen that fiery passi... ...h of her second child. She had exactly the hair and the foot for which the Duchesse de Berri was so famous, hair so thick that no hairdresser could ga... ... often wished to get him to her house; but when he met her at those of the Duchesse de Maufrigneuse, of Mademoiselle des T ouches, of the Comtesse de ... ...e of 1829 his marriage began to be talked of to the eldest daughter of the Duchesse de Grandlieu, who at that time had no less than four daughters to ... ...y best terms with that lady. Madame de Serizy had carried him off from the Duchesse de Maufrigneuse, who, it was said, had “thrown him over,” one of t...

...r with their situation, indicates that they were the old show suite of the duchesses, while the dukes must have had theirs in the wing opposite. The t... ...of a mother, who wishes to be a sister to you.” I was quite charmed by the Duchess, who talked in a gentle voice, straightening my convent tippet as s... ...not feel the slightest desire to rival her. My father now entered, and the Duchess presented me to him. He became all at once most affectionate, and p... ...circles were here last night. V ery soon I am going to a ball given by the Duchesse de Maufrigneuse, and I shall be presented to the society I am so e... ...ix to seven, and the evening is given to enter- tainments of various kinds—theatres, balls, concerts, at homes. In short, her life is so full, that I ... ...which my mother goes out, if she is not at the the- atre. There are twelve theatres in Paris. I am grossly ignorant and I read a lot, but quite indisc... ...t admiring the exquisite curves of your mother’s arms, and that mother the Duchesse de Chaulieu, it is impossible, my dear, not to deplore your own an... ...ove with legs and pirouettes? We have noticed that my brother comes to the theatre only when 39 Balzac T ullia dances there; he applauds the steps of... ...be so graphically, that I might be watching some first- rate acting at the theatre—mine is as monotonous and regu- lar as though it were passed in a c...

...nger as though he had ten other sons to take Calyste’s place. So, when the Duchesse de Berry landed in France to con- quer back the kingdom for her so... ...heart some noble and beautiful being,—not a stage-player, a masquerader, a theatre woman, an author whose business it is to feign sentiments, a creatu... ...g the gentle tenets of her sex. A woman commits a sin in even go- ing to a theatre; but to write the impieties that actors repeat, 50 Balzac to roam ... ...ts laces and mirror; together with bits of furniture of singular shape,—a “duchesse,” a chaise-longue, a stiff little sofa,—with window-curtains of si... ... the pages of Scott, of Byron,—Parisina, Effie, Minna! yes, and that royal duchess, whom I saw on the moors among the furze and the ferns, whose very ... ...e over a salon. She then bethought herself of seeking the celebrity of the Duchesse de Langeais and the Vicomtesse de Beauseant. But the world, after ... ...ending in five daugh- ters for lack of a male heir, she had written to the Duchesse de Grandlieu, describing Calyste and giving his history , and also... ...iness it was to engage a stall had taken it quite near to that part of the theatre which is called the avant-scene. As Calyste looked about him during... ...sense of loyalty, the first thought of Sabine’s hus- band was to leave the theatre. As he left the door of the or- chestra stalls, he saw the door of ...

...we should have never made the acquaintance of the Duke and 22 Don Quixote Duchess, or gone with Sancho to Barataria. From the moment the book came in... ...all the rest of them, that the books, the ballads, the barber’s shops, the theatres are full of, were really and truly ladies of flesh and blood, and ... ...k of countess for my daughter will be her ruin. You do as you like, make a duchess or a princess of her, but I can tell you it will not be with my wil... ...d dropping on both knees on the ground, he said, “Queen and prin- cess and duchess of beauty, may it please your haughtiness and greatness to receive ... ...ng themselves out for their wedding on the morrow. They advanced towards a theatre that stood on one side of the meadow decked with carpets and boughs... ...ause he had so lately taken the name. “Tell me, brother squire,” asked the duchess (whose title, however, is not known), “this master of yours, is he ... ...in the cradle, I mean in the press.” “I am rejoiced at all this,” said the duchess; “go, brother Panza, and tell your master that he is welcome to my ...

...laims of two Academi cians (always a bad stumbling block) as carefully as a duchess of the old r´ egime, brought up to believe in the divine right of... ...e ally national institutions as the French Academy, and the French national theatre, the Th´ eˆ atre Franc ¸ais. The history of the former, in partic... ...ore forming an opinion of the illustrated “funny papers,” of the fiction, the theatres, the whole trend of French humour, irony and sentiment. Well mea... ...ake the same view of such matters, and that the Vie Parisienne,, the “little theatres” and the light fiction of France do not rep resent the average F... ...ts is a tragedy with a happy ending. ” What Mr. Howells said of the American theatre is true of the whole American attitude toward life. “A tragedy wi... ...country like ours, to understand why France leads in the world of ideas. The theatre has an importance in France which was matched only in the most gl...

...nal flash of happy inspiration. “I expect I shall have a box at one of the theatres to-mor- row,” he remarked carelessly; “I will call for you and M. ... ...h of June ministers are often puzzled to know what to do with boxes at the theatre; ministerialist deputies and their constituents are busy in their v... ...s to pass that the best seats are filled at this season with heterogeneous theatre-goers, never seen at any other time of year, and the house is apt t... ...egant, and as much at home as an actor treading the familiar boards of his theatre, in two days had recovered all the ground lost in the past six mont... ...aid the Marquise d’Espard, “I never hear that name without thinking of the Duchesse de Langeais, poor thing. She vanished like a falling star.—That is... ...was but one step. The curtain fell. Chatelet was now paying a visit to the Duchesse de Carigliano in an adjourning box; Mme. de Bargeton acknowledged ... ...n Mme. de Mortsauf. The third was General de Montriveau, the author of the Duchesse de Langeais’ ruin. The fourth, M. de Canalis, one of the most famo... ... in Mme. d’Espard’s 25 Balzac train by way of concealing his love for the Duchesse de Chaulieu. In spite of his graces and the affectation that spoil... ...e arrival of a poet, and made fun of his costume. Canalis went back to the Duchesse de Chaulieu, and no more was seen of him. Lucien was glad when the...

... He married her to the Duc de Brissac, Peer of France, only brother of the Duchesse de Villeroy. She died in 1684, without children,—having been long ... ...in the presence of all the Court. The same day the household of the future Duchesse de Chartres was declared. The King gave her a first gentleman ushe... ...llegitimate children of the King, and, for the first time, after them, the Duchesse de V erneuil; so that M. de V erneuil, illegitimate son of Henry I... ...it. The Duc d’Uzes thought this so amusing that he marched in front of the Duchess, crying out, as loud as he could—”Place, place for Madame Charlotte... ...er. Afterwards the married couple were led into the apart- ment of the new Duchesse de Chartres. The Queen of En- gland gave the Duchess her chemise; ... ...ount of the gain it brought, the Italians re- ceived orders to close their theatre and to quit the realm in a month. This affair made a great noise; a... ... the arrival of the King and Queen of England. The King took them into the theatre, where 98 Saint-Simon Destouches’s opera of Isse was very well per... ...es very absent. It happened one evening that, talking with Racine upon the theatre, the King asked why comedy was so much out of fashion. Racine gave ... ...te of this excuse. During the winter, as the King could not well go to the theatre, the theatre cane to him, in the apartments of Madame de Maintenon,...

...ich now all men, all women and children have learnt, and sing chorally, in Theatres, Boulevards, Streets; and the heart burns in every bosom: Aux Arme... ...terre with the National Guard?—It is very curious to think what a City is. Theatres, to the number of some twenty-three, were open every night during ... ...l herself see red artillery fired; in their over-haste to satisfy an Arch- duchess ‘two mortars explode and kill thirty persons. ’ It is in vain; Lill... ...iek or knit as the case needs; famed Tricoteuses, Patriot Knit- ters;—Mere Duchesse, or the like Deborah and Mother of the Faubourgs, giving the keyno... ...ynote. It is a changed Jacobin Society; and a still changing. Where Mother Duchess now sits, authentic Duchesses have sat. High-rouged dames went once... ...gazing Paris may retire to its hearths and coffee-houses, to its clubs and theatres: the damp Darkness has sunk, and with it the drumming and patrolli... .... Huruge is heard; 91 Thomas Carlyle and the hysteric eloquence of Mother Duchesse: ‘Varlet, Apostle of Liberty,’ with pike and red cap, flies hastil... ... set against the De- cided. Mayor Chambon heard of dreadful rioting at the Theatre de la Nation: it had come to rioting, and even to fist-work, betwee... ...he Ayes and Noes, as at a game of Rouge-et-Noir. Further aloft reigns Mere Duchesse with her unrouged Amazons; she cannot be prevented making long Hah...

...taverns (for the Oriental Club was not as yet invented); he frequented the theatres, as the mode was in those days, or made his appearance at the oper... ...delighted beyond measure at the Ba- zaars; and in a whirl of wonder at the theatre, whither the good- natured lady took her. One day, Amelia had a hea... ... into it, in the midst of a perfect storm of sympathy. At the little Paris theatres, on the other hand, you will not only hear the people yelling out ... ... merit had its reward you ought to be a Duch- ess—no, there ought to be no duchesses at all—but you ought to have no superior, and I consider you, my ... ...res regarding this female correspondent of Osborne’s—opining that it was a Duchess in London who was in love with him—or that it was a General’s daugh... ...eculating upon Osborne’s intrigue— Stubble holding out that the lady was a Duchess about Queen Charlotte’s court, and Cackle vowing she was an opera-s... ...lways talking nonsense and scandal. Osborne is not going to run off with a Duchess or ruin a milliner. Miss Sedley is one of the most charming young w... ... exceedingly vain of his French) to Mademoiselle Amenaide of His Majesty’s Theatre. This news made Dobbin grave, and he thought of our friends 236 V ... ..., as it were, up to the very brink of battle. A certain ball which a noble Duchess gave at Brussels on the 15th of June in 289 Thackeray the above-na...

... Captain of a band of Welshmen. (Captain:) QUEEN to King Richard: (QUEEN:) DUCHESS OF YORK : (DUCHESS OF YORK:) DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER : (DUCHESS:) Lad... ... i 9 SCENE II: The DUKE OF LANCASTER’S palace. [Enter JOHN OF GAUNT with DUCHESS .] JOHN OF GAUNT : Alas, the part I had in Woodstock’s blood Doth ... ... see the hours ripe on earth, Will rain hot vengeance on offenders’ heads. DUCHESS: Finds brotherhood in thee no sharper spur? Hath love in thy old b... ...et heaven revenge; for I may never lift An angry arm against His minister. DUCHESS: Where then, alas, may I complain myself? JOHN OF GAUNT : To God,... ...omplain myself? JOHN OF GAUNT : To God, the widow’s champion and defence. DUCHESS: Why, then, I will. Farewell, old Gaunt. Thou goest to Coventry, t... ... : Alack, poor Richard! where rode he the whilst? DUKE OF YORK : As in a theatre, the eyes of men, After a well graced actor leaves the stage, Are i...

... that time they had never been to a play; the churches of Paris were their theatre. Their education in their mother’s house had been as rigorous as it... ...eir mother and sisters, but after that the count took them off to museums, theatres, restaurants, or, during the summer season, into the country. Exce... ...rs and comments upon them, who waltzes with a dozen young men, goes to the theatre, devours novels, cares nothing for religion, and makes her own ethi... ... certain hour. Instead of giving orders, I receive them. At a ball, at the theatre, a servant comes to me and says: ‘Madame’s carriage is ready,’ and ... ...he guided her taste in dress; he trained her to converse; he took her from theatre to theatre, and made her study literature and current history. This... ... of Mesdames d’Espard and de Listomere, Mademoiselle des T ouches, and the Duchesse de Grandlieu, had selected certain of the ce- lebrities in art, sc... ... connecting link between the actress and the countess,—a knot severed by a duchess in the days of Louis XV . by the poisoning of Adrienne Lecouvreur; ... ... cheapening toys for her last baby. When a man has Florine, who is in turn duchess, bourgeoise, Negress, marquise, colonel, Swiss peasant, virgin of t... ... Father Goriot A Distinguished Provincial at Paris Beatrix Grandlieu, Duchesse Ferdinand de Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life Beatrix Grandlieu,...

...on seized his prey, after waiting for the day when the extravagance of the Duchesse de Maufrigneuse culmi- nated in the sale of that splendid property... ...ed to hear of discov- eries in science or art, or the latest pieces at the theatres, the newest poems, and by airing the cant words of the day she mad... ... became utterly provincial. In Paris there are several kinds of women: the duchess and the financier’s wife, the ambassadress and the consul’s wife, t... ...eur Charles-Felix-Theodore, Chevalier de Beauvoir, and cousin to Madame la Duchesse de Maille.—Heh?’ he added after a short silence, during which he l... ..., a moustache, a pistol, and a peaked hat—if the manager of the Vaudeville Theatre were but bold enough to pay for a few newspaper articles, that woul... ...it up in my columns. “T o proceed:— OR ROMAN REVENGE 219 The Duchess of Bracciano found her glove. Adolphe, who had brought her back... ... this page would make rapid progress in the comprehension of the plot. The Duchesse Olympia is a lady who could intentionally forget her gloves in a d... ...give her one day more, and the lov- ers parted after the manner of certain theatres, which give 108 The Muse of the Department ten last performances ... ...ed at scarcely any expense beyond paying his rent. He had boxes at all the theatres; the sale of the books he reviewed or left unreviewed paid for his...