...The Commission in Lunacy by Honoré de Balzac Translated by Clara Bell A Penn State Electronic Classics Series ... ...The Commission in Lunacy by Honoré de Balzac Translated by Clara Bell A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pub... ...nslated by Clara Bell A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Commission in Lunacy by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell is a public... ...mmission in Lunacy by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ters dressed in satin, Michonneaus in white gloves, Poirets bedizened with orders, fine gentlemen doing more 6 The Commission in Lunacy usurious busi... ...numerary judge. There was a general outcry among the law- yers: “Popinot a supernumerary!” Such injustice struck the legal world with dismay—the attor... ...ianchon, “unluckily he has no money, and he rushes round like the devil in holy water—That is all.” “ ‘Has the honor to submit to you, Monsieur the Pr... ...nce of mind, she ended by attributing his interrogatory to the Questioning Spirit of Voltaire’s bailiff. “My parents,” she went on, “married me at the... ...y were by birth great, gave rise in them to a kingly pride, the courage of knights, and the protecting kindness of a baronial lord; their manners, har...

...Excerpt: IN 1828, at about one o?clock one morning, two persons came out of a large house in the Rue du Faubourg Saint- Honore, near the Elysee-Bourbon. One was the famous doctor, Horace Bianchon; the other was one of the most elegant men in Paris, the Baron de Rastignac; they were friends of long...

...The Muse of the Department by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by James Waring A Penn State Electronic Classics Seri... ...The Muse of the Department by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by James Waring A Penn State Electronic Classics Series ... ...lated by James Waring A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Muse of the Department by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a pu... ...James Waring A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Muse of the Department by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publication... ...hip and of Benedictine patience. What profound knowledge of the old feudal spirit is to be seen in the motto of the Beauseants, Pulchre sedens, melius... ...Monsieur Gravier will give twenty thousand francs for it. In addition, the Order of the Legion of Honor will be conferred on you.” “Well, that is some... ...atten- tions and small services, only too happy to be taken for the carpet-knights of this sovereign lady, by strangers admitted to spend an evening o... ...s constantly suffering under the husband who so calmly walked the stage as supernumerary in the drama of her life. Compelled to bury her wealth of lov... ...dge and jury in a police court would give credence to the operation of the Holy Ghost! And yet who can venture to assert that God will never again red...

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