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Excerpt: Unconsious Comedians by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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...t Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Unconsious Comedians by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publ... ...ment or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Unconsious Comedians by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Penn... ...State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac Unconscious Comedians by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley De... ...francs from the Funds, his pictures sell for their weight in 4 Unconsious Comedians gold, and (what seems to him more extraordinary than the invitati... ...s adventures to his cronies in the provinces, “two Parisians 6 Unconsious Comedians dressed in simple frock-coats, looking like nothing at all, calle... ...is one aristocrat, that one Catholic, others juste-milieu, middle ages, or German, as they choose for their purpose. Now, though opinions do not give ... ... It was all quite otherwise alarming than the romantic tales and scenes of German drama lead one to expect; here was suffocating actuality. The air di...

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... with a pink face and wonderful hair, absolutely white. The Sieppes were a German-Swiss family. “We go to der park, Schuetzen Park, mit alle dem child... ...finished. “Don’t you love sad music, Mac?” she murmured. Then came the two comedians. They talked with fear- ful rapidity; their wit and repartee seem... ...rd of 73 Frank Norris the jokes, could have listened all night. After the comedians had gone out, the iron advertise- ment curtain was let down. “Wha... ...age. They were dressed in Tyrolese costume; they were yodlers, and sang in German about “mountain tops” and “bold hunters” and the like. The yodling c... ...ign. It costs too much; I can’t get it yet a while. There’s two kinds, one German gilt and the other French gilt; but the German gilt is no good.” McT... ...animals for Uncle Oelbermann’s store. Trina’s ancestors on both sides were German-Swiss, and some long-forgotten forefather of the sixteenth century, ... ...social discussions with Heise the har- ness-maker, and with one or two old German, habitues of the place. These discussions Marcus carried on, as was ...

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...very different. Englishmen pique them- selves on never opening their lips; Germans are melancholy in a vehicle; Italians too wary to talk; Spaniards h... ... no matter where, was his sole ambition. Though Frederic Marest was cousin-german to Georges Marest, the latter not having told his surname in Pierrot... ...nizens of a studio and of a lawyer’s office are, in this line, superior to comedians. In buying a practice without clients, Desroches began, as it wer...

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...tion of the boudoir. The morganatic couple (to 55 Balzac use a convenient German expression which has no exact equivalent) had reached the door, when... ...alted sphere. Delphine wished for money; she married Nucingen, a banker of German extraction, who became a Baron of the Holy Roman Empire. Goriot rema... ...rdered one of his friends at the time of the Revolution. He is one of your comedians that sets up to have opinions of his own. He is a banker— senior ... ... soon twist her father round her fingers, and set his head spinning like a German top by plying him with sentiment! She will be too much touched by yo... ...d her fa- ther. “It was all got up for your benefit! I have had to do with Germans in the way of business, honest and straightforward they are pretty ...

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...resden, shep- herds in bridal garb, with delicate bouquets in their hands, German fantasticalities surrounding a platinum clock, in- laid with arabesq... ...e’s character to make a merit of doing her duty. The master was a Catholic German; one of those men born old, who seem all their lives fifty years of ... ...ged to those strange creations which have been properly depicted only by a German, —by Hoffman, the poet of that which seems not to exist but yet has ... ...ne knew then, or later, what abbe or pious spinster had discovered the old German then vaguely wandering about Paris, but as soon as mothers of famili... ...appeared. He gave vent to witty little remarks and flowery speeches in his German-Gallic patois, very observing and very quaint and said with an air w... ... and practice sharpened day by day. Wit is thought to be a quality rare in comedians. It is so natural to suppose that persons who spend their lives i...

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...- thing more. Indolent and prolific as Rossini, compelled, like great poet-comedians, like Moliere and Rabelais, to see both sides of everything, and ... ...sed to the pantheism of one who is still living to bear an honored name in Germany. Meyraux was the friend of that “Louis” of whom death was so soon t... ...- riage, T ullia.” “Yes, but the Duke is waiting below in it, and he has a German Minister with him.” “Ask the Duke and the Minister to come up,” said... ...ter with him.” “Ask the Duke and the Minister to come up,” said Nathan. “A German? They are the ones to drink, and they listen too; he shall hear some... ...oss to Lucien, and T ullia went in to supper between Emile Blondet and the German Minister. “I cannot understand why you are making an onslaught on Mm... ...” “A supper among French journalists always fills me with dread,” said the German diplomatist, with serene urbanity; he looked as he spoke at Blondet,...

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...hich carried off on the mor- row over thirty wagon-loads of cuirasses. The Germans in- vented a name for their enemies on this occasion which means “m... ...ater!” “Heavens!” thought Blondet. “And I imagined I had seen the greatest comedians of the present day!—Potier, the younger Baptiste, Michot, and Mon... ...political blunder to which we owe such mistakes as sending French money to Germany to buy horses which our own land had ceased to breed; a blun- der w...

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... boys left to themselves will furnish richer fun than any troop of trained comedians. No: no Art arrives at the artlessness of nature in matters of co... ... dame, and my lady the hope of Raynham. Joy and blessings unto all! as the German poet sings. Lady Judith accepted the hand of her decrepit lord that ... ...ne awaits him fruitful within. We heard of him last that he was trying the German waters—preparatory to his undertaking the re- lease of Italy from th...

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...had placed hypocrisy in the rank of art by classing Tartuffe forever among comedians— there exists a point of perfection to which genius alone at- tai... ...feast of Tantalus had been provided for him: one book was English, another German, a third Russian; there was even one in cabalistic letters that seem...

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...ly commended and much bemoaned of all; but yet of none so greatly as of a Germane lord, called Raisciac, as he that was amased at so rare vertue: his... ...to prove I need not labour for home examples) seemeth in my opinion cosen-german to this, that is, when one is ever ready to breathe his last, caref... ...n hee was afterward, when having lost a battel, under Quintilius Varus in Germanie, all in a rage and desperate, he went up and downe beating his be... ... doth sometimes possesse a whole multitude. In one of the encounters that Germanicus had with the Germanes, two mightie troupes were at one instant ... ...pned to see a man, whom the Bishop of Soissons has in confirmation, named Germane, and all the inhabitants thereabout have both knowne and seene to ... ... of recreations, and blame those of injustice that refuse good and honest Comedians, or (as we call them) Players, to enter our good townes, and gru... ...on the otherside, to meddle with it without love or bond of affection, as Comedians do, to play a common part of age and manners, without ought of t... ...as in Comedies, the spectators shall have as much or more pleasure as the Comedians. For my part, I no more acknowledge Venus without Cupid, then a ... ...nown or heard of about those quarters. Quintilian reporteth to have seene Comedians so farre ingaged in a sorrowfull part, that they wept after being...

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... in the streets the coach of Madame de Bouillon, which the servants of the German woman forced to give way to their mistress’s. The Bouillons, piqued ... ...mself in the matter. She was so outraged, that she resolved to retire into Germany, and in a very few months did so. My year of service in the Muskete... ...aint-Simon to Versailles, and sent off a large detachment of the army into Germany. The surprise of the Marechal de Luxembourg was without bounds. He ... ...d how important it was to draw off detachments of the Imperial forces from Germany into Flanders, and how, by sending an army into Flanders in- stead ... ...many into Flanders, and how, by sending an army into Flanders in- stead of Germany, the whole of the Low Countries would be in our power. But the King... ...d to quit the realm in a month. This affair made a great noise; and if the comedians lost an establishment by their boldness and folly, they who drove... ...oncluded by naming the principal,— namely, that for want of new pieces the comedians gave old ones, and, amongst others, those of Scarron, which were ... ...edies of Moliere were thought of, and were played by the King’s musicians, comedians for the nonce. Madame de Maintenon introduced, too, the Marechal ...

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...hree hundred several nations; that had fought innumerable battles with the Germans and Gauls, and always carried the victory; that had taken a million... ... that must still be fed with new tro- phies and triumphs, the Parthian and German wars would yield matter enough to satisfy the most covetous of honor... ...ad deserted, and the cities which they had burnt. This he did for fear the Germans should pass in and possess themselves of the land whilst it lay uni... ...it lay uninhabited. His second war was in defense of the Gauls against the Germans, though some time before he had made Ariovistus, their king, recogn... ... upon their very approach; for never expecting the Romans would attack the Germans, whom he had thought it more likely they would not venture to withs... ...he wrote, if we may believe Eratosthenes, Demetrius the Phalerian, and the Comedians. Eratosthenes says that often in his speaking he would be transpo... ...rivers, and the streams, as a man inspired, and beside himself. One of the comedians calls him a rhopoperperethras, and another scoffs at him for his ...

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...all really interesting and important matter in the journal of the T our in Germany and Italy, which, as it was merely written under Montaigne’s dictat... ...ering the rod or shed- ding a tear, before beginning French, thanks to the German teacher whom his father had placed near him, and who never addressed... ...s time a great journey. As the account which he has left of his travels in Germany and Italy comprises some highly interesting particulars of his life... ...to Francois Hottmann, to say that he had been so pleased with his visit to Germany that he quitted it with great regret, although it was to go into It... ... not an equally good opinion of the food, which was less plentiful than in Germany, and not so well served. He lets us understand that in Italy they s... ...mn these entertainments, and with injustice those who refuse to admit such comedians as are worth seeing into our good towns, and grudge the people th...

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...grips with some previously non-experienced part of their cultural past. Take Germany and its flawed attempt to bury its recent past. Now German ch... ...en mostly whitewashed and deleted from their history books. Now: enlightened Germans are forced to re-experience a painful part of their cultural pa... ...size. So; three round rocks, equals three round eggs. Which is crazy. In a German Concentration camp: the difference between having three eggs as ... ... better game, and had more fun playing it. Which team would win? The best comedians. The funniest players. The slyest. The best tacklers. The... ... this to me: I do not understand. There is a famous research experiment in Germany called: Biosphere. Where some of the most famous scientists g... ... human stupidity and destruction called Science… is still being carried on in Germany. Studying the effects of its own experiment. Studying the ef... ... ourselves and others laugh; that millions of people flock to see professional comedians; whose only job is to be funny and make other people laugh. ... ...ow much people lack a sense of their own humor. Having to go see professional comedians in order to laugh, because they are not able to be funny the... ... intellectual, unloving, uncaring, sneering humor. The way most civilized comedians get people to laugh is to either deliberately portray themsel...

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...sed it in a thing of so great importance to him? He had word sent him from Germany that if he thought fit, they 5 Montaigne would rid him of Arminius... ...nd constrained to the ends of government, 12 Essays: Book III “Veri juris germanaeque justitiae solidam et expressam effigiem nullam tenemus; umbra e... ...us utimur;” [“We retain no solid and express portraiture of true right and germane justice; we have only the shadow and image of it.”—Cicero, De Offic... ...the other hand, to engage there without love and without inclination, like comedians, to play a common part, without putting anything to it of his own... ...s in comedies, that the people will have as much pleasure or more than the comedians. For my part, I no more acknowl- edge a Venus without a Cupid tha... ...funct was not there so much as known. Quintilian re- ports as to have seen comedians so deeply engaged in a mourn- ing part, that they still wept in t... ...gine mine, a body without affection: and this madness is, methinks, cousin-german to that of the 111 Montaigne boy who would needs pollute the beauti... ...ions: an other falls into downright railing, and seeks a quarrel after the German fash- ion, to disengage himself from a wit that presses too hard upo...

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... and this was natural enough; but he had much to say of modern theories in Germany which they had never heard of and received with misgiving. He talke... ...Rule. They realised that he was a Liberal. Their hearts sank. He talked of German philoso- 70 Of Human Bondage phy and of French fiction. They could ... ...hree years spent in a French lycee, to teach French to the upper forms and German to anyone who cared to take it up instead of Greek. Another master w... ...hat Philip now sought his society. Sharp in a couple of terms was going to Germany for a year . He hated school, which he looked upon as an indignity ... ...m on at T ercanbury? I should have thought it would be better if I went to Germany for a bit.” “What has put that in your head?” said Aunt Louisa. “Do... ...ake, conspired suddenly to find artistic value in the turns; and red-nosed comedians were lauded to the skies for their sense of character; fat female... ...t the smoking concerts of the Medical School by his imitation of notorious comedians, had abandoned the hospital for the chorus of a musical comedy . ...

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...go about as hungry for talk as you do here. I like to look at a Russian or a German or an Italian — I even like to look at a Frenchman if I ever have ... ...sh are just simply foreigners, nothing more, nothing less; they talk Danish, German, “Extract from Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven” Mark Twain ... ...alms of grace. I knew Charles the Second very well — one of the most popular comedians in the En glish section — draws first rate. There are better, ...

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... good entertainment from real Genoese dishes, such as Tagliarini; Ravioli; German sausages, strong of garlic, sliced and eaten with fresh green figs; ... ...enoa—is a very splendid, commodi ous, and beautiful theatre. A company of comedians were acting there, when we arrived: and soon after their depar t... ... with the eyes of Heaven knows how many English, French, Americans, Swiss, Germans, Russians, Swedes, Norwegians, and other foreigners, nailed to thei... ... which is perched on the steep and lofty hill above the little town of San Germano, and is lost on a misty morning in the clouds. So much the better, ...

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... to await its time. Relief was never quite near at hand for kings, queens, comedians 108 The Ambassadors and other such people, and though you might ... ...a little Jewess (which she wasn’t, oh no!) and chattering French, English, German, Italian, anything one would, in a way that made a clean sweep, if n...

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... generally to the north,) had been continually visited by some of the best comedians during Shakspeare’s childhood. One or two of the most respectable... ...vices to many persons connected with the London stage. The conversation of comedians ac- quainted with books, fresh from the keen and sparkling circle... ...osto amongst Italians, Camoens amongst those of Portugal, Schiller amongst Germans, however ably they may have been naturalized in foreign languages, ... ...lued by the refined and the elegant, but he is not (what Shakspeare is for Germany and America) in any proper sense a popular favorite. NO NO NO NO NO... ...eps and has long slept as a subject of criticism or com- mentary, while in Germany as well as England, and now even in France, the gathering of wits t... ...re, a very considerable library might be formed in England, and another in Germany. NO NO NO NO NOTE 22. TE 22. TE 22. TE 22. TE 22. Apartment is here... ...vantage of verse which makes the poets so much easier to a beginner in the German language than the illimitable weavers of prose. The line or the stan...

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...body saw mankind stripped of its clothes as the child sees the king in the German fairy tale, it’s I! Into my ears! A child’s! Too young to die of fri... ... It might have been assumed; yet nobody is altogether a comedian; and even comedians themselves have got to believe in the part they play. Of the two ...

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...er, and you have, in the eyes of France, the responsibility of peace and war. But that you should pretend to prevent me, who am king, from extending m... ...ain, and said: “I do not think that can be the case, for my verses have never been printed.” “Well, then, it must have been the tragedy which informed... ...disdainfully, “a million! What will your majesty do with a million?” “It appears to me, nevertheless —— “ said Louis XIV . “That is not more than is s... ... which holds its head high, it is said, never tires his rider’s hand. The withers are rather low. 572 Ten Years Later – V ol. 1 The drooping of the h...

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... she fascinated and amused her contemporaries. They were great sentimental comedians, these Peters, Elizabeths, and Catherines who played their Tsarsh... ... for nearly half a century, not as a Russian, but as a highly domesticated German lady whose household routine was not at all so unlike that of Queen ... ...most with the still abler Empress Catherine II, who is not a Russian but a German, by no means barbarous or in- temperate in her personal habits. She ... ... ians, drunken pigs. Catherine does not know it; but we are. Catherine’s a German. But I have given her a Russian heart [he is about to slap himself a... ...THERINE [yawning]. Heigho—ah—yah—ah—ow— what o’clock is it? [Her accent is German.] NARYSHKIN [formally]. Her Imperial Majesty is awake. [The Court fa... ... angel! CATHERINE [tenderly]. Geliebter! EDSTASTON. I don’t know a word of German; but that sounded kind. [Becoming hysterical.] Little Mother, beauti...

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...s power which is understood, as it is meant to be understood, to represent Germany. The lesson taught by the play is the danger of invasion and the ne... ...ortly afterwards he refused to license another play in which the fear of a German invasion was ridiculed. The German press drew the inevitable inferen... ... press drew the inevitable inference that the Lord Chamberlain was an anti-German alarmist, and that his opinions were a reflection of those prevailin... ...ase has often been made offensively im- proper on the stage by popular low comedians, with the effect of changing the whole character and mean- ing of... ... actors. If it is to be tolerated at all: if we are not to make war on the German Empire for permitting it, nor punish the English people who go to Ba...

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...nial. On the other hand, Rabelais has been several times trans- lated into German. In the present century Regis published at Leipsic, from 1831 to 184... ...t it would be none the less curious were some one thoroughly familiar with German to translate Fischart for us, or at least, by long extracts from him... ...s, or at least, by long extracts from him, give an idea of the vagaries of German taste when it thought it could do better than Rabelais. It is danger... ..., between the two extremes. He was neither Lutheran nor Calvinist, neither German nor Genevese, and it is quite natural that his work was not re- 27 ... ...; what by desire; and what your name is. The companion answered him in the German (The first edition reads “Dutch.”) tongue, thus: ‘Junker, Gott geb e... ...es, holy mountebanks, tumblers of beads, mumblers of ave-marias, spiritual comedians, sham saints, hermits, all of them poor rogues who, like the herm...

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...the chief officer of the Queen of England’s household. Story number two. A German officer finds himself in an inn with a French lady who has wounded h... ...all, and that when he was once satisfied that the ill-conducted hero was a German and not an English officer, he passed the play with- out studying it... ...: a whole class of frankly blackguardly plays, in which unscru- pulous low comedians attract crowds to gaze at bevies of girls who have nothing to exh... ...n, even though Isolde be both fourteen stone and forty, as she often is in Germany. Indeed, it needed no Wagner to convince the public of this. The vo...

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... the Greeks, the Romans, the Persians, the Egyp tians, the Russians, the Germans, the French, the English, the Spaniards, the Americans, the South A... ...ly!)— until nine—which is late for us—then went upstairs, Jean’ s friendly German dog following. At my door Jean said, “I can’t kiss you good night, f... ...stressed and said I must think of Clara. Clara would see the report in the German papers, and as she had been nursing her husband day and night for fo... ...radeless and forlorn. I have seen him from the win dows. She got him from Germany. He has tall ears and looks exactly like a wolf. He was educated in... ...ermany. He has tall ears and looks exactly like a wolf. He was educated in Germany, and knows no language but the German. Jean gave him no orders save... ...the celebrated ecclesias tics in the list; all the celebrated tragedians, comedians, singers, dancers, orators, judges, lawyers, poets, dramatists, h...

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...muddled through. Nature gave us a longer credit than she gave to France or Germany or Russia. To British centenar- ians who died in their beds in 1914... ...haw Remonstrances and warnings were met either with an accu- sation of pro-Germanism or the formula, “Remember that we are at war now.” I have said th... ...off his cassock first, and the respect- able school governor expelling the German professor with insult and bodily violence, and declaring that no Eng... ...t was crudely natural, and perhaps necessary for recruiting purposes, that German militarism and German dynastic ambition should be painted by journal... ...hich they certainly are not); but when it came to frantic denunciations of German chemistry, German biology, German poetry, German music, German liter... ...at first to find stuff crude enough to nurse them on. The best music- hall comedians ransacked their memories for the oldest quips and the most childi...