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Excerpt: The Vicar of Tours 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: 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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Excerpt: Ursula by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

...Catherine dé Medici by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katherine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electroni... ...Catherine dé Medici by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katherine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic C... ...tate Electronic Classics Series Publication Catherine dé Medici by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katherine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penns... ...e Electronic Classics Series Publication Catherine dé Medici by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katherine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...e as an electronic transmission, in any way. Catherine dé Medici by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katherine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...s an electronic transmission, in any way. Catherine dé Medici by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katherine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State Universi... ... will also serve to explain the importance of the Sieur Lecamus, a furrier honored with the custom of two queens, Catherine dé Medici and Mary Stuart,... ...was despotic in his own home; there he was an autocrat. Most respected and honored by his brother crafts- men, he owed to his long possession of the f... ...ust have flashed forth flame in moments of anger. Whether by reason of his obesity, or because of his thick, short neck, or in consequence of his vigi...

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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...