A Street of Paris and Its Inhabitant

By Honoré de Balzac

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• Language: English
• Publisher: DigiCat
• Release date: Sep 4, 2022
• ISBN: 8596547218524

Honoré de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) was a French novelist, short story writer, and playwright. Regarded as one of the key figures of French and European literature, Balzac’s realist approach to writing would influence Charles Dickens, Émile Zola, Henry James, Gustave Flaubert, and Karl Marx. With a precocious attitude and fierce intellect, Balzac struggled first in school and then in business before dedicating himself to the pursuit of writing as both an art and a profession. His distinctly industrious work routine—he spent hours each day writing furiously by hand and made extensive edits during the publication process—led to a prodigious output of dozens of novels, stories, plays, and novellas. La Comédie humaine, Balzac’s most famous work, is a sequence of 91 finished and 46 unfinished stories, novels, and essays with which he attempted to realistically and exhaustively portray every aspect of French society during the early-nineteenth century.

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Honoré de Balzac

A Street of Paris and Its Inhabitant

EAN 8596547218524

DigiCat, 2022

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Table of Contents

PREFACE

I

PHYSIOGNOMY OF THE STREET

II

SILHOUETTE OF THE INHABITANT

III

MADAME ADOLPHE

IV

INCONVENIENCE OF QUAYS WHERE ARE BOOK STALLS

V

FIRST COURSE

VI

SECOND COURSE

VII

DESSERT

VIII

THIS SHOWS THAT THE WIFE OF A MAN OF SCIENCE IS VERY UNHAPPY

PREFACE

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Illustrated T.

This little Parisian silhouette in prose was written by Balzac to be the first chapter of a new series of the Comedie Humaine that he was preparing while the first was finishing. Balzac was never tired. He said that the men who were tired were those who rested and tried to work afterwards.

A Street of Paris and its Inhabitant was in its author's mind when Hetzel, engaged in collecting a copy for the work entitled Le Diable a Paris that all book lovers admire, asked Balzac for an unpublished manuscript.

Balzac gave him this, after retouching it, in order that it should have the air of a finished story. Why Hetzel did not use it