Literature
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Perseverance In Love by Honore de Balzac
During the first years of the thirteenth century after the coming of our Divine Saviour there happened in the City…
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The Afflictions of an English Cat by Honore de Balzac
The Afflictions of an English Cat was published in the anthology, Lords of the Housetops: Thirteen Cat Tales (1921), Carl…
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The Atheist’s Mass by Honore de Balzac
Bianchon, a physician to whom science owes a fine system of theoretical physiology, and who, while still young, made himself…
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The Brothers-in-Arms by Honore de Balzac
At the commencement of the reign of King Henry, second of the name, who loved so well the fair Diana,…
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The Conscript by Honore de Balzac
The Conscript, alternatively translated as The Recruit, is an interesting story about time and space, featured in the Library of…
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The Continence Of King Francis The First by Honore de Balzac
Every one knows through what adventure King Francis, the first of that name, was taken like a silly bird and…
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The Danger Of Being Too Innocent by Honore de Balzac
The Lord of Montcontour was a brave soldier of Tours, who in honour of the battle gained by the Duke…
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The Dear Night of Love by Honore de Balzac
In that winter when commenced that first taking up of arms by those of the religion, which was called the…
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The Devil’s Heir by Honore de Balzac
There once was a good old canon of Notre Dame de Paris, who lived in a fine house of his…
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The Elixir of Life by Honore de Balzac
In a sumptuous palace of Ferrara, one winter evening, Don Juan Belvidéro was entertaining a prince of the house of…
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