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    The Recruit
    The Recruit
    The Recruit
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    The Recruit

    By Katharine Prescott Wormeley and Honoré de Balzac

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateJul 1, 2000
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      The Recruit - Katharine Prescott Wormeley

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Recruit, by Honore de Balzac

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

      Title: The Recruit

      Author: Honore de Balzac

      Translator: Katharine Prescott Wormeley

      Release Date: August, 1998 [Etext #1426]

      Posting Date: February 24, 2010

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE RECRUIT ***

      Produced by John Bickers, and Dagny

      THE RECRUIT

      By Honore De Balzac

      Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley

      DEDICATION

      To my dear Albert Marchand de la Ribellerie.

      THE RECRUIT

      At times they saw him, by a phenomenon of vision or locomotion, abolish space in its two forms of Time and Distance; the former being intellectual space, the other physical space.

      Intellectual History of Louis Lambert.

      On an evening in the month of November, 1793, the principal persons of Carentan were assembled in the salon of Madame de Dey, where they met daily. Several circumstances which would never have attracted attention in a large town, though they greatly preoccupied the little one, gave to this habitual rendezvous an unusual interest. For the two preceding evenings Madame de Dey had closed her doors to the little company, on the ground that she was ill. Such an event would, in ordinary times, have produced as much effect as the closing of the theatres in Paris; life under those circumstances seems merely incomplete. But in 1793, Madame de Dey's action was likely to have fatal results. The slightest departure from a usual custom became, almost invariably for the nobles, a matter of life or death. To fully understand the eager curiosity and searching inquiry which animated on this occasion the Norman countenances of all these rejected visitors, but more especially to enter into Madame de Dey's secret anxieties, it is necessary to explain the role she played at Carentan. The critical position in which she stood at this moment being that of many others during the Revolution the sympathies and recollections of more than one reader will help to give color to this narrative.

      Madame de Dey, widow of a lieutenant-general, chevalier of the Orders, had left the court at the time of the emigration. Possessing a good deal of property in the neighborhood of Carentan, she took refuge in that town, hoping that the influence of the Terror would be little felt there. This expectation, based on a knowledge of

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