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...Excerpt: It is neither to the Roman Prince, nor to the representative of the illustrious house of Cajetani, which has given more than one Pope to the Christian Church, that I dedicate this short portion of a long history; it is to the learned commentator ...

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... Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Cousin Betty by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publication of the Pennsylvania State U... ...tion To Don Michele Angelo Cajetani, Prince of Teano. It is neither to the Roman Prince, nor to the representa- tive of the illustrious house of Cajet... ...ous house of Cajetani, which has given more than one Pope to the Christian Church, that I dedi- cate this short portion of a long history; it is to th... ...uthor of some strange tales indeed, who left us the splendid collection of romances whence Shakespeare derived many of his plots and even com- plete c... ...ooked by the roof of a chapel still standing there as if to prove that the Catholic religion—so deeply rooted in France—survives all else. For forty y... ...hree years of prime, proclaimed poverty as loudly as a beggar in rags at a church door. The dining-room, badly kept by a single servant, had the sicke... ... acknowledged talent for the fine arts. He had always had a preference for sculpture; the necessary time for study had, however, seemed to him too lon... ...far too weak to do any hard manual labor or undertake an important work in sculpture. All this was Greek to Lisbeth Fischer. She replied to the unhapp... ...grand and terrible exception deserves all the honors decreed to her by the Catholic Church. Thus, in one moment, Lisbeth Fischer had become the Mohica...

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...Catherine dé Medici by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katherine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electroni... ...dence has shown itself much less among lay writers than among those of the Church. It is from the Benedictines, one of the glories of France, that the... ... Saints,” made cruel war upon the saints surreptitiously smuggled into the Church. Thus the emulators of the Benedictines, the members (too little rec... ...the monarchy, without friends, aware of treachery among the leaders of the Catholic party, foreseeing a republic in the Calvinist party, Catherine emp... ...m- municable and communicated by thought, was an impossi- bility which the Catholics of the sixteenth century would not hear of. Alas! the victory of ... ..., with all due deference to historians, are found only in the pages of the romance-writers, without whom they would be lost to the world. At this peri... ...style of ad- dress, “we are about to do battle for the first time with the Roman prostitute. In a few days either our legions will be dying on the sca... ... placed at each end of the chateau of Louis XII., the delicate carving and sculpture, so original in design, which abound every- where, the remains of... ...hich the courtiers promenaded; the galleries, marvellously ex- ecuted; the sculptured windows, whose embrasures are so deep as to form boudoirs—for wh...

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...The Country Doctor by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell A Penn State Electro... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Country Doctor by Honoré de Balzad, trans. Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell is a publication of the Pen... ...re Joseph Genestas was an unostentatious kind of Bayard. There was nothing romantic nor picturesque about him—he was too thoroughly commonplace. His w... ...rodi- giously neglected. He knew in a hazy kind of way that Cae- sar was a Roman Consul, or an Emperor, and that Alexander was either a Greek or a Mac... ...differently by different na- tures. The thought of death is called up by a churchyard, but a deserted village puts us in mind of the sorrows of life; ... ... people—a crowd that uttered not a word. Then suddenly the chanting of the Church broke the still- ness, calling up the confused thoughts that take po... ... harmony with the sublimity of Christian doctrine. “Once I looked upon the Catholic religion as a cleverly exploited mass of prejudices and superstiti... ...f,” laughed the cure. “Is not my heart set on bringing the teaching of the Catholic religion to co-operate with your plans of administration? For inst... ...and on the way to Berlin; well, you would see triumphal arches, and in the sculpture upon them the common soldiers are done every bit as beautifully a...

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...Excerpt: Volumes, almost libraries, have been written about Balzac; and perhaps of very few writers, putting aside the three or four greatest of all, is it so difficult to select one or a few short phrases which will in any way denote them, much more sum them up. Yet the five words qu...

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...The Human Comedy: Introductions & Appendix by Honoré de Balzac A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Human Co... ...s Series Publication The Human Comedy: Introductions & Appendix by Honoré de Balzac is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Por... ...ng man, though the portraits of him in later life may not satisfy the more romantic expec- tations of his admirers. He must have had at all times eyes... ...e title of Jane la Pale (it was originally called, with a still more Early Roman- tic avidity for baroque titles, Wann-Chlore) has caused it, I believ... ...genuine taste for, and thought himself a genuine connoisseur in, pictures, sculpture, and objects of art of all kinds, old and new; and though prices ... ...zschovnia, and it was not till the 14th of March 1850 that, “in the parish church of Saint Bar- bara at Berditchef, by the Count Abbe Czarski, represe... ...erve them. Hence, no doubt, the necessity for the monarchical prin- ciple. Catholicism and Royalty are twin principles. As to the limits within which ... ...sm there is no possible future for the woman who has sinned; while, in the Catholic Church, the hope of forgiveness makes her sublime. Hence, for the ... ...is no possible future for the woman who has sinned; while, in the Catholic Church, the hope of forgiveness makes her sublime. Hence, for the Protestan...

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

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...The T wo Brothers by Honore de Balzac T ranlated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic... ...n State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Two Brothers by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penns... ...ies success, and pardons every means of attaining it. May it return to the Catholic religion, for the purification of its masses through the inspi- ra... ... sanctimonious, she had no other education than that given to women by the Church. Judged, by ordinary standards, she was an accomplished wife, yet he... ... ignorance of life paved the way for great misfortunes. The epitaph on the Roman matron, “She did needlework and kept the house,” gives a faithful pic... ...” they all cried, as Agathe closed the door. No sooner did the students of sculpture and painting find out that Madame Bridau did not wish her son to ... ...ely to have hid the money. On the days preceding festivals, Agathe went to church and stayed there a long time; no doubt she con- fessed and prepared ... ... the sign-manual of an anterior civiliza- tion; for its stones came from a Roman temple which stood on the same site. Issoudun, therefore, according t... ... land where, as we have seen, revolt of all kinds is traditional. In 1802, Catholic worship was scarcely re-estab- lished. The Emperor found it a diff...

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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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...ley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Beatrix by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penns... ...ion of 1830, Guerande is still a town apart, essentially Breton, fervently Catholic, silent, self-contained,—a place where modern ideas 7 Beatrix hav... ... whose presence still lingers in a fold of your heart. 9 Beatrix Near the church of Guerande stands a mansion which is to the town what the town is t... ...erior to the latter in antiquity and for- tune as the T rojans were to the Romans. The Guaisqlains (the name is also spelled in the olden time du Glai... ... a stone dais like those that crown the statues of saints at the portal of churches. Can you not see a woman walking in the morning along this balcony... ...w weak plants are straggling. This detail, in harmony with the vestiges of sculpture, proves to a practised eye that the mansion was built by a V enet... ... with the East, where the semi-Saracenic architects, careless of the great Catholic thought, give four leaves to clover, while Chris- tian art is fait... ...ort of literary revolution when the great question of the classics and the romanticists palpitated on all sides,—in the newspapers, at the clubs, at t... ...rix to this point, whence the view is magnifi- cent, and where the natural sculpture of the granite is even more imposing to the spectator than the ma...

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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... ... the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Chouans by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State Unive... .... The only meetings among them are on Sundays and feast-days in the parish church. These silent assemblies, under the eye of the rector (the only rule... ...atly excited by this beginning of an affair which seemed to have an almost romantic interest, and they began to joke about it. But Hulot stopped them ... ...eard by the men, “it is just; haven’t the Blues seized the property of the Church, and our own?” Another murmur, very different from the growl with wh... ...sources, the poesy of ancient times revived in the midst of this weird and romantic nature, these armed and unarmed Chouans, cruel and praying, men ye... ...essed, she presented a perfect likeness of the noble masterpieces of Greek sculpture. She smiled as she looked with approval at the arrangement of her... ...known under his patronymic of Rifoel, was silent before the general of the Catholic armies. “What is all this about, gentlemen?” asked the marquis, ex... ...enterprise before I have time to make a faithful report to the king on the Catholic armies of Brit- tany. I charge you, in case you live to see the Re...

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Excerpt: The Muse of the Department by Honore de Balzac, translated by James Waring.

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...The Muse of the Department by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by James Waring A Penn State Electronic Classics Seri... ...ectronic Classics Series Publication The Muse of the Department by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publication of the Pennsylvania State U... ...is Eminence, Monseigneur the Arch- bishop of Bourges, had converted to the Catholic faith a young person, the daughter of one of the citizen families,... ...ion Moise Piedefer bought up the nationalized land, pulled down abbeys and churches with all the zeal of his ancestors, oddly enough, and married a Ca... ...d churches with all the zeal of his ancestors, oddly enough, and married a Catholic, the only daughter of a member of the Convention who had per- ishe... ...mes from the Bible, so as to have nothing in common with the Saints of the Roman Church. Mademoiselle Dinah Piedefer was placed by her mother in one o... ...om the Bible, so as to have nothing in common with the Saints of the Roman Church. Mademoiselle Dinah Piedefer was placed by her mother in one of the ... ... remarkable creations of art. She threw herself into the propaganda of the roman- tic school, including, under Art, poetry and painting, litera- ture ... ...n- tic school, including, under Art, poetry and painting, litera- ture and sculpture, furniture and the opera. Thus she be- came a mediaevalist. She w...

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...Sons of the Soil by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electroni... ...ee Blangy, the county-town, containing about sixty houses, and the village church, which is nothing more than a tumble-down building with a wooden clo... ... houses have disappeared in the valley of the Oise alone. We are getting a Roman campagna around Paris in advance of the days when a tem- pest shall b... ...naparte became First Consul, she increased her property by the purchase of church lands, for which she used the proceeds of her diamonds. As an Opera ... ... of a type of peasantry he had seen in old tapes- tries, old pictures, old sculptures, and which, up to this time, had seemed to him imaginary. He res... ...apa!” remarked his fair and fat daugh- ter, who bore some resemblance to a Roman matron. “You need a shirt, and a pair of clean trousers, and a hat; a... ...uch better that I should have it, and so enable her to live in peace.” The Catholic religion, and it alone, is able to prevent these capitulations of ... ...es before the Revolution, was again a priest after the re-establishment of Catholic worship, and again the curate of the same little town. He was not ... ...among them was that of the chief magistrate of former days,—a house with a sculptured front on a line with the church, to which it forms a fine accomp...

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...The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electroni... ... except on public buildings. At Arcis the chateau, the law courts, and the church are the only stone buildings. Nevertheless, Champagne, or, if you pr... ...several of the inert portions of our country. Writers, administrators, the Church from its pulpit, the Press in its columns, all to whom chance has gi... ...olution. Attached to the Simeuse family, and consequently, good 39 Balzac Catholics, the Beauvisage father and mother desired to have their son bapti... ...tness, and the manners of a petted child, all that her person presented of romantic charm. Still, a husband capable of reforming her education and eff... ...of Arcis and her future expectations as Lady Croesus, and would spin her a romance to end in true love and a marriage.” “That’s a very pretty idea!” c... ...d under quite exceptional circum- stances, carried off the grand prize for sculpture. No doubt remained in my mind as to his identity. I attributed hi... ...ntre, and is republican without wanting a republic, he proclaims himself a Catholic, and sits astride the hobby of that party, namely,—liberty of educ... ... immemorial, wrapped themselves in that banner.” “Does he mean to renounce sculpture absolutely?” asked Joseph Bridau. “Not yet; he is just finishing ...

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...enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Modeste Mignon by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penns... ...e file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Modeste Mignon by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ... that son of mine!” she says to her little friend Modeste, as they walk to church, with the beautiful Exupere in front of them. “He is like you,” Mode... ...he palpitating interest of others would have seemed quite poetic. Nowadays romance-writers arrange such effects; and it is quite within their province... ...was foolishly over-anxious. Madame Latournelle, who always took Modeste to church and brought her back again, was commissioned to tell the mother that... ... Exupere. I much prefer the novels of Ducray- Dumenil to all these English romances. I’m too good a Norman to fall in love with foreign things,—above ... ...ister. But this sense of satiety cast her, saturated as she still was with Catholic spirituality, into the love of Good, the infinite of heaven. She c... ... as the poetry of Manfred, and provided for his scepticism by making him a Catholic. Modeste attributed Moliere’s melancholy to the women of the seven... ...adic- tion. Every work of art, let it be in literature, music, paint- ing, sculpture, or architecture, implies a positive social util- ity, equal to t...

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

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...Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by James Waring A Penn State Electronic Classics Seri... ...all have the hap- piness of finding names already dear to your old Italian romancers among those of women whom we love, and to whose memory I would be... ... de Rubempre is under the protection of the strongest power of the day—the Church. Choose between life and death—Answer.” Rastignac felt giddy, like a... ... Chatelet, “and Monsieur du Rubempre’s fortune is accounted for.” “Ah, the Church knows how to choose its Levites; what a sweet ambassador’s secretary... ... as we see them grouped by the cleverest sculptors; but they were be- yond sculpture, the greatest of the arts; Lucien and his pretty domino were more... ... the future life of the Christian, to the being we love?” “Ah, I will be a Catholic!” she cried in a hollow, vehement tone, that would have earned her... ...ere young girls of the best families are educated; there you will become a Catholic, you will be trained in the practice of Christian exercises, you w... ...e is seldom seen, we find exquisite parts. As to that imposing union which sculpture tries to produce, and has produced in a few rare examples like th... ...ndifferent to literary fame, that he did not care about the success of his romance, republished under its real title, L’Archer de Charles IX., or the ...

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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... ...a colander, honeycombed with the shadows of the dints, hollowed out like a Roman mask. It set all the laws of anatomy at defiance. Close inspection fa... ...se abysses, you find nothing but a German at the bottom. Both friends were Catholics. They went to Mass and per- formed the duties of religion togethe... ...3 Balzac Mephistopheles is blended with a homely cheerfulness found in the romances of August Lafontaine of pacific memory; but the predominating elem... ... ence in itself, called archaeology. Archaeology comprehends architecture, sculpture, painting, goldsmiths’ work, ceram- ics, cabinetmaking (a purely ... ...told Mme. Chiffreville, “until you have been in the mayor’s office and the church. We have only come as far as a personal inter- view; so I count upon... ...sis of isolated facts for which modern analysis as yet cannot account. The Catholic Church, the law of the land, and modern philosophy, in agreement f... ...olated facts for which modern analysis as yet cannot account. The Catholic Church, the law of the land, and modern philosophy, in agreement for once, ... ...over of the arts, it would be a great pity not to put Music, Painting, and Sculpture on his tomb—three handsome full-length figures, weeping—” Remonen...

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...enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Magic Skin by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...g woman threw her- self into the Seine from the Pont des Arts.” Dramas and romances pale before this concise Parisian phrase; so must even that old fr... ...Crocodiles, monkeys, and serpents stuffed with straw grinned at glass from church windows, seemed to wish to bite sculp- tured heads, to chase lacquer... ...e him the scrolls of Titus Livius. The young man beheld Senatus Populusque Romanus; consuls, lictors, togas with purple fringes; the fighting in the F... ...rals, when torture was the sport of sover- eigns; and from their councils, churchmen with courtesans’ arms about them issued decrees of chastity for s... ...tion of the Evangel. The sweet triumphant smile revealed the secret of the Catholic religion, which sums up all things in the pre- cept, “Love one ano... ...elabra lit up the slightest details of gilded friezes, the delicate bronze sculpture, and the splendid colors of the furniture. The sweet scent of rar... ...rns and feet, and do not carp at your mother…” “Is it any fault of mine if Catholicism puts a million dei- ties in a sack of flour, that Republics wil... ...terlaced figures blended with the white marbles, the noble masterpieces of sculpture that adorned the rooms. Though the two friends yet preserved a so...