HONORE DE BALZAC

Lucien Chardon, an aspiring young author, leaves his small provincial hometown and attempts to succeed in the Parisian literary circles of the early 19th century.

The next morning, on awaking, Birotteau thought so much of his prospective canonry that he forgot...

Balzac La Peau de chagrin Un jeune aristocrate désargenté et désespéré, Raphaël de Valentin, reçoit d'un vieil antiquaire une peau d'onagre miraculeuse et maléfique : elle satisfait tous ses désirs, mais sa superficie, liée par un charme mystérieux à la durée de la vie de son possesseur, rétrécit à chaque souhait exaucé. Raphaël, qui rêvait de c...

Henri de Marsay, que a los veintidós años no tiene «sentimiento obligatorio alguno», conoce en el jardín de las Tullerías a una hermosa joven. A través de astutos ardides, consigue convertirse en su amante, pero, aparte de averiguar que es española, que vive custodiada por un marqués octogenario y por una severísima dueña, no obtiene de la mist...

Mademoiselle des Touches always insists on her guests remaining at table till they leave, having...

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The incident recorded in this sketch took place towards the end of the month of November, 1809, the moment when Napoleon's fugitive empire attained the apogee of its splendor. The trumpet?blasts of Wagram were still sounding an echo in the heart of the Austrian monarchy. Peace was being signed between France and the Coalition. Kings and princes ...