by
Katharine Prescott Wormeley, Honoré de Balzac
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
On a fine evening in the month of September, 1836, a man about thirty years of age was leaning on the parapet of that quay from which a spectator can look up the Seine from the Jardin des Plantes to Notre-Dame, and down, along the vast perspective of the river, to the Louvre. There is not another point...