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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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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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