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The Deputy of Arcis

By: Honoré de Balzac

...The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electroni... ...The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic C... ...ine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley... ...t Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publi... ...wooden puppets which the proprietor of the Guignolet shows exhibits to the great satisfaction of won- der-stricken idlers in the streets. The arrondis... ...d not been the son of an ardent Bonapartist, he belonged to a family whose members had justly incurred the animosity of the Cinq-Cygne family, owing t... ... this Simon Giguet, into a support for himself with the presi- dent of the council. If you want letters, powers, credentials, write to me.” “And those... ...n and martyr, was, as is generally believed, a daughter of prince of Great Britain. Becoming the abbess of a convent of unmarried women, who were call... ...allenauve committed a fraud, how will you prove that the so-called son was privy to it? He might have been the dupe of some political schemer.” “But w...

...Excerpt: All elections begin with a bustle before beginning to describe an election in the provinces, it is proper to state that the town of Arcis-sur-Aube was not the theatre of the events here related. The arrondissement of Arcis votes at Bar-sur-Aube, which is forty miles from Arcis; consequently there is no...

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