Literature
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How the Chateau d’Azay Came to be Built by Honore de Balzac
Jehan, son of Simon Fourniez, called Simonnin, a citizen of Tours– originally of the village of Moulinot, near to Beaune,…
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How The Pretty Maid Of Portillon Convinced Her Judge by Honore de Balzac
The Maid of Portillon, who became as everyone knows, La Tascherette, was, before she became a dyer, a laundress at…
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Innocence by Honore de Balzac
By the double crest of my fowl, and by the rose lining of my sweetheart’s slipper! By all the horns…
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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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