Balzac: 1669 books

Un texte classique, libre de droits, édité avec soin par Edi-don, association à but non lucratif, aux bénéfices intégralement reversés à de grandes associations caritatives reconnues d’utilité publique.

France, especially in Brittany, still possesses certain towns completely outside of the movement which gives to the nineteenth century its peculiar characteristics. For lack of quick and regular communication with Paris, scarcely connected by wretched roads with the sub-prefecture, or the chief city...

Extrait : "Petit voleur est, parmi les industriels, le nom consacré par une coutume immémoriale, pour désigner ces malheureux prestidigitateurs qui n'exercent leurs talents que sur les objets du prix le plus médiocre. Dans tous les états il y a un apprentissage à faire; on ne livre aux apprentis...

Extrait : "Après la messe de mariage qui, selon l'usage de quelques familles du faubourg Saint-Germain, fut célébrée à sept heures à Saint-Thomas-d'Aquin, le baron Calyste du Guénic et Sabine de Grandlieu montèrent dans une jolie voiture de voyage, au milieu des embrassements, des félicitations...

BnF collection ebooks - "Les deux rivaux, l'un astre à son déclin, l'autre un soleil à son lever, allèrent s'asseoir sur quatre chaises devant le Café de Paris. Maxime eut soin de se placer à une certaine distance de quelques vieillots qui par habitude se mettent en espalier, dès une heure...

The story takes place between 1838 and 1843. Baron Hulot leads a libertine life that risks ruining his entire family. His wife, Adeline, is desperate because the Baron's escapades put their daughter Hortense's marriage in danger, to whom it will be difficult to offer a dowry. All this is taught...

I once used to live in a little street which probably is not known to you— the Rue de Lesdiguieres. It is a turning out of the Rue Saint-Antoine, beginning just opposite a fountain near the Place de la Bastille, and ending in the Rue de la Cerisaie. Love of knowledge stranded me in a garret; my nights...

Set in the fifteenth century, Maitre Cornelius is a gripping historical novel that illustrates the unbelievable lengths to which some will go in the name of love. Marie, the daughter of the king, is trapped in a loveless marriage with a cruel, violent man. To escape her horrible home life, she begins...

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The Comtesse de Montcornet told him of a young lady in the department of the Orne, a Mademoiselle Beatrix-Maximilienne-Rose de Casteran, the youngest daughter of the Marquis de Casteran, who wished to marry his two daughters without dowries in order to reserve his whole fortune for the Comte de Casteran, his son.

The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred texts,...