Honore de Balzac

pubOne.info present you this new edition. Monsieur de Manerville, the father, was a worthy Norman gentleman, well known to the Marechael de Richelieu, who married him to one of the richest heiresses of Bordeaux in the days when the old duke reigned in Guienne as governor. The Norman then sold the estate he owned in Bessin, and became a Gascon,...

pubOne.info present you this new edition. "e;The whole show is dreadful, "e; she cried coming out of the menagerie of M. Martin. She had just been looking at that daring speculator "e;working with his hyena, "e;- to speak in the style of the programme....

pubOne.info present you this new edition. To what genius fed on tears shall we some day owe that most touching of all elegies, - the tale of tortures borne silently by souls whose tender roots find stony ground in the domestic soil, whose earliest buds are torn apart by rancorous hands, whose flowers are touched by frost at the moment of their...

pubOne.info present you this new edition. In I know not what year a Parisian banker, who had very extensive commercial relations with Germany, was entertaining at dinner one of those friends whom men of business often make in the markets of the world through correspondence; a man hitherto personally unknown to him. This friend, the head of a rather...

pubOne.info present you this new edition. To Madame la Comtesse Louise de Turheim as a token of...

pubOne.info present you this new edition. Mme. de Bargeton and Lucien de Rubempre had left Angouleme behind, and were traveling together upon the road to Paris. Not one of the party who made that journey alluded to it afterwards; but it may be believed that an infatuated youth who had looked forward to the delights of an elopement, must have found...