Honor De Balzac: 1029 books

To Monsieur le Baron James de Rothschild, Banker and

One of the few drawing-rooms where, under the Restoration, the Archbishop of Besancon was sometimes to be seen, was that of the Baronne de Watteville, to whom he was particularly attached on account of her religious sentiments.

“Ah! madame, ” replied the doctor, “I have some appalling stories in my collection. But each one has its proper hour in a conversation— you know the pretty jest recorded by Chamfort, and said to the Duc de Fronsac: 'Between your sally and the present moment lie ten bottles of champagne. '

To Monsieur le General Baron de Pommereul, a token of the friendship

Paris, 1818. A man came to Master Derville's study, but he was too busy to devote his time to this unknown patibular and offered to meet him later. When the man leaves the study, he declares himself to be Chabert... but everyone knows that Colonel Chabert died at the Battle of Eylau and that...

To Madame la Princesse Caroline Galitzin de Genthod, née Comtesse Walewska. Homage and remembrances of

To my dear Albert Marchand de la Ribellerie.

To Monsieur Eugene-Auguste-Georges-Louis Midy de la Greneraye

The young aristocrat Raphael de Valentin, after losing all his fortune to pay his father's debts, intends to commit suicide. He comes by chance to an antique dealer, where an old man shows him "a skin of sorrow" with the power to grant all the wishes of his owner: "If you own me, you will own everything, but your life will belong to me".

In Saumur, Félix Grandet (father Grandet) has built up, thanks to numerous land speculations, a fortune that is equal only to his avarice. He reigns as a tyrant over his entourage: his wife, his only daughter, Eugenie, and his servant Nanon. He locks everything up, and rations the whole house. On...

At the end of 1612, the young painter Nicolas Poussin presented himself at the door of Porbus, the great painter he worshipped. He takes advantage of the old master Frenhofer to follow him and enter. In the studio, he was fascinated by a painting commissioned by Marie de Médicis, Mary the Egyptian,...

Das Buch handelt von der Familie Grandet, die in Saumur an der Loire lebt. Vater Grandet ist einer der reichsten Männer der Umgebung und dabei unmenschlich geizig; sein ganzes Trachten und Streben gilt allein der Wahrung und Mehrung seines Vermögens. Mutter, Tochter und Hausmädchen führen in seinem...

The tourniquet Saint-Jean, the narrow passage entered through a turnstile, a description of which was said to be so wearisome in the study entitled “A Double Life” (Scenes from Private Life), that naive relic of old Paris, has at the present moment no existence except in our said typography. The building of the Hotel-de-Ville, such as we now see it, swept away a whole section of the city.