Literature
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In Which It Is Demonstrated That Fortune Is Always Feminine by Honore de Balzac
During the time when knights courteously offered to each other both help and assistance in seeking their fortune, it happened…
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Louis Lambert by Honore de Balzac
DEDICATION“Etnunc et semper dilectoe dicatum.” Louis Lambert was born at Montoire, a little town in the Vendomois, where his father…
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Melmoth Reconciled by Honore de Balzac
To Monsieur le Gnral Baron de Pommereul, a token of thefriendship between our fathers, which survives in their sons. DE…
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Odd Sayings Of Three Pilgrims by Honore de Balzac
When the pope left his good town of Avignon to take up his residence in Rome, certain pilgrims were thrown…
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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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