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...Excerpt: Lucien had gone to Paris; and David Sechard, with the courage and intelligence of the ox which painters give the Evangelist for accompanying symbol, set himself to make the large fortune for which he had wished that evening down by the Charente, when he sat with Eve by the weir, and she gave him her hand and her heart....

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Excerpt: The Village Rector by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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...Excerpt: Note. It is somewhat remarkable that Balzac, dealing as he did with traits of character and the minute and daily circumstances of life, has never been accused of representing actual persons in the two or three thousand portraits which he painted of human nature....

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...t Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Beatrix by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of th... ...ley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Beatrix by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penns... ... A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Beatrix by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylv... ... for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Beatrix by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...r the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Beatrix by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...ever, these pictures of ancient times are beginning to fade and disappear. Modern industry, working for the masses, goes on destroying the creations o... ...st, count for much in the phenomena of retrospection; but the monuments of modern industry are freestone quarries, saltpetre mines, cotton factories. ... ... is Guerande. The name alone awak- ens a thousand memories in the minds of painters, artists, thinkers who have visited the slopes on which this splen... ...to inanimate nature. These relics, resisting change, present to the eye of painters those dusky tones and half-blurred features in which the artistic ...

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

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...y A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Seraphita by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penn-... ... Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Seraphita by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penn- sy... ...or the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Seraphita by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Seraphita by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...loating hair inclining gently forward, in that aerial attitude which great painters give to messengers from heaven; the folds of her raiment fell with... ...s to be convinced of this. In one pas- sage he is seen as the precursor of modern chemistry by the announcement that the productions of organized natu... ...author of the said article is ignorant of the character of Count H——. This honored gentleman, who has done many important services to his country, uni... ... mantle covers like a pall an ancient Humanity 102 Seraphita of which the moderns retain no memory. Man never pauses; he goes his round, he vegetates...

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Excerpt: Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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... is perhaps shared by a few others, a few insignificant phrases are exchanged, as: ?Do you think of going away soon to La Crampade?? ?How well Madame de Portenduere sang!? ?Who is that little woman with such a load of diamonds?? Or, after firing off some smart epigrams, which give transient pleasure, and leave wounds that rankle long, the groups thin out, the mere lookers ...

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

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...At the Sign of the Cat and Racket by Honoré de Balzac Translated by Clara Bell A Penn State Electronic Classics Series ... ...At the Sign of the Cat and Racket by Honoré de Balzac Translated by Clara Bell A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pub... ...c Classics Series Publication At the Sign of the Cat and Racket by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...lassics Series Publication At the Sign of the Cat and Racket by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...hat moved the young man to mirth. But it must be said that the wittiest of modern painters could not invent so comical a caricature. The animal held i... ...ed the young man to mirth. But it must be said that the wittiest of modern painters could not invent so comical a caricature. The animal held in one o... ... those who believe that the world is growing cleverer day by day, and that modern humbug sur- passes everything, it may be observed that these signs, ... ...have been more likely to steal a piece of cloth than to infringe this time-honored etiquette. Such reserve may now appear ridiculous; but these old ho... ...the exchange had recourse to the immense credit, the fortune, or the time- honored experience of Monsieur Guillaume. Still, the ex- cellent merchant’s...

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Excerpt: A Start in Life by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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Excerpt: Sons of the Soil by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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Excerpt: The Two Brothers by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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

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Excerpt: Modeste Mignon by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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...Excerpt: PART I. Mme. De Bargeton and Lucien de Rubempre had left Angouleme behind, and were traveling together upon the road to Paris. Not one of the party who made that journey alluded to it afterwards; but it may be believed that an infatuated ...

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...Droll Stories Volume II: The Second T en T ales by Honore de Balzac Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine A Penn... ...Droll Stories Volume II: The Second T en T ales by Honore de Balzac Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine A Penn State ... ...Droll Stories Volume II: The Second T en T ales by Honore de Balzac Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine A Penn State Ele... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication Droll Stories: Volume Two by Honore de Balzac is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. T... ...lectronic Classics Series Publication Droll Stories: Volume Two by Honore de Balzac is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Por... ...tronic Classics Series Publication Droll Stories: Volume Two by Honore de Balzac is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portab... ...ghing a hundred pounds; the ring of Hans Carvel, as told by Rabelais, or a modern narrative pitifully expectorated by a schoolboy. Seeing them dumb- f... ...nderstood, quali- fying words, harmonising the melodies of the ancient and modern, congregating customs, distilling verbs, alchemising all languages s... ...tle of Amboise, they came with him certain workmen, master sculptors, good painters, and masons, or architects, who ornamented the galleries with sple...

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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 word as to this lady, the most important lady of Besancon....

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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... ... State Electronic Classics Series Publication Albert Savarus by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State ... ...e file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Albert Savarus by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, the Pennsylvania State University, Electr... ...was out of pure vanity on its part; the aristocracy were happy to affect a modern air, and to be able to show any Parisians of rank who visited the Co... ... Her face was exactly like those of Albert Durer’s saints, or those of the painters before Perugino; the same plump, though slender modeling, the same... ... critics of Madame de Chavoncourt’s drawing-room, Albert had imitated some modern writers who, for lack of inventiveness, relate their private joys, t...

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

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...eley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Ursula by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penns... ...y A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Ursula by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsyl-... ...r for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Ursula by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...or the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Ursula by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State Univer- ... ...with Ursula in the Grand’Rue, and they are going to mass.” In spite of the modern poetic canons as to local color, it is quite impossible to push real... ...in which the science of that day chose to see a definition of the void. In modern philosophy there is no void. Ten feet of void and the world crumbles... ...ard to his hotel on which was written “To-morrow; nine o’clock, Rue Saint- Honore, opposite the Assumption.” Minoret, who seemed to have renewed his y... ...ur years the two antagonists met beneath a porte- cochere in the Rue Saint-Honore. Frenchmen have too many distractions of mind to hate each other lon... ...extreme beauty, to which her almost hopeless love gave a depth which great painters have sometimes conveyed in pictures where the soul is brought into...

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Excerpt: Scenes from a Courtesan?s Life by Honore de Balzac, translated by James Waring.

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...Eugenie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic... ...Eugenie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Cl... ...nn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Eugenie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penns... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication Eugenie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...es of the sun’s wealth,” as they said. Monsieur Grandet thus obtained that modern title of no- bility which our mania for equality can never rub out. ... ...rmous profits from it, domi- nates the scene and throws light upon it. The modern god,— the only god in whom faith is preserved,—money, is here, in al... ...dignity of the woman beloved, gave to her features an illumination such as painters render by a halo. Before the coming of her cousin, Eugenie might b...

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...Letters of T wo Brides by Honoré de Balzac Translated by R. S. Scott A Penn State Electronic Classics Series... ...Letters of T wo Brides by Honoré de Balzac Translated by R. S. Scott A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication Letters of Two Brides by Honoré de Balzac, trans. R. S. Scott is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State ... ...Electronic Classics Series Publication Letters of Two Brides by Honoré de Balzac, trans. R. S. Scott is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State Uni... ...sweet company, I became a true Carmelite, such as they ap- peared to us, a modern Danaid, who, instead of trying to fill a bottomless barrel, draws ev... ...I have no one to direct me, I light on some which are fearfully dull. What modern literature I have read all turns upon love, the subject which used t... ...wy brows. I can pose as a Madonna with melancholy, swan-like neck, and the painters’ virgins will be nowhere; my place in heaven would be far above th... ...d. “Perhaps you hope that it may mean marriages for me!” For sole reply he honored me with a meaning look. For some days he has amused himself with te... ...francs. Your daughter weeps, but bows to the unquestioned authority of her honored parent. Some people are unkind enough to say that, behind her tears...

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...A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Chouans by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penns... ...enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Chouans by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylv... ... the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Chouans by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...e file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Chouans by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...te University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac The Chouans by Honore de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley Dedication T o ... ...tained. Antiquaries find Druidic monuments still standing. The ge- nius of modern civilization shrinks from forcing its way through those impenetrable... ...y of an oath; a complete ignoring of our laws, our customs, our dress, our modern coins, our language, but withal a patriarchal simplicity and virtues... ...ral voice which haughtily challenged condemnation, “know this; I am a dis- honored creature, unworthy of you. From this hour I accept my fate as a los... ...ore brilliant than on any of her past days, for a serenity like that which painters give to the mar- tyrs added to her face an imposing dignity. She h...

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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... ...The Lily of the Valley by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic C... ...e Electronic Classics Series Publication The Lily of the Valley by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penns... ...lectronic Classics Series Publication The Lily of the Valley by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...rch full of character, a church of the days of the Crusades, such a one as painters desire for their pictures. Surround this scene with ancient walnut... ...s made you ill,” she said, “the air of our valley will soon restore you.” “Modern education is fatal to children,” remarked the count. “We stuff them ... ...r of the privilege; you must admit, however, that on the dead level of our modern customs aristocracy can rise to great- ness only through unparallele... ...your lives on our account. It is for us to die, for you to live, great and honored. For us the dagger in your hand; for you our pardoning love. Does t... ...ho strikes without warning and spares you a struggle? Why a happy life, an honored life, to the murderer who drop by drop pours gall into the soul and...

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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... ...enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Cousin Pons by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ... the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Cousin Pons by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec- ... ...e file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Cousin Pons by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec- tro... ...u would have suspected him of recovering some piece of lost property, some modern equivalent of the marquise’s poodle; you would have recognized the a... ...at men: of all the mysteries of generation, this most defies the ambitious modern scientific investigator. In the second—the ancient Egyptians (we are... ... buy miracles of painting on vellum cheaply enough. There are two thousand painters in Paris, you know.’—And I opened out the fan carelessly, keeping ... ...do you call him?” “Watteau, cousin. One of the greatest eighteenth century painters in France. Look! do you not see that it is his work?” (pointing to... ...e Marville, announced by Mme. Cibot, was an event in the house. Pons, thus honored for the first time in his life saw reparation ahead. “At last, my d...

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...The Firm of Nucingen by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by James Waring A Penn State Electronic Classics Seri... ...The Firm of Nucingen by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by James Waring A Penn State Electronic Classics Series ... ...ate Electronic Classics Series Publication The Firm of Nucingen by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State... ... Electronic Classics Series Publication The Firm of Nucingen by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State Un... ...Emile was the most fascinating of those light-of-loves of whom a fantastic modern wit declared that “he liked them better in satin slippers than in bo... ...to find out that he was an assistant in a perfumer’s shop in the Rue Saint Honore, no further back than 1814.” “Tut, tut, tut!” said Bixiou, “do not t... ... at the instability of opinion are either knaves or fools for their pains. Modern medicine, which passed (it is its fairest title to glory) from a hyp... ...tell you! “As we may incur reproach for following on the heels of portrait painters, auctioneers, and fashionable dressmakers, I will not inflict any ... ...morning he went round to take a look at the workmen and to superintend the painters. He had introduced ‘comfort’ (the only good thing in England)— hea...

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Excerpt: A Woman of Thirty by Honore de Balzac, translated by Ellen Marriage.

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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... ...ey A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Juana by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Juana by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Juana by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...the Christ,—the glowing imagination of the boldest and also the warmest of painters. In this young girl three things were united, a single one of whic... ...red all the others: the joyous, girlish kiss of a daughter to a mother, an honored mother, a mother in whom shone all the domestic virtues. 16 Juana ... ... things behind her to relearn life. In this sense the famous words which a modern poet has put into the lips of Marion Delorme is infused with truth,—... ...neille, 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 ... ...r to fall upon her head. She judged her husband incapable of rising to the honored ranks of the social order, and she felt that he would one day desce...

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...Ferragus Chief of the Devorants by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electroni... ...Ferragus Chief of the Devorants by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic C... ...ic Classics Series Publication Ferragus, Chief of the Devorants by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penns... ...Classics Series Publication Ferragus, Chief of the Devorants by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...s epitomized; by night it is a dream of Greece. The rue Traversiere-Saint- Honore—is not that a villainous street? Look at the wretched little houses ... ...ead to a frightful drama, a bloody drama of death and love, a drama of the modern school. Unhappily, this scene, this modern drama itself, will be com... ...e, that haven of paupers or shabbily dressed persons. Why have none of our painters ever attempted to reproduce the physiognomies of a swarm of Parisi... ...,—a fact which tends to undervalue the system of notes and dashes by which modern authors have endeav- ored to depict the great disasters of all the p...