A Street of Paris and Its Inhabitant

A STREET OF PARIS, by Honore De Balzac
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Title: A Street Of Paris And Its Inhabitant Author: Honore De Balzac Release Date: November 1, 2006 [EBook #8150] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A STREET OF PARIS ***
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A STREET OF PARIS
AND
ITS INHABITANT
BY
HONORE DE BALZAC
Translated by Henri Pene du Bois
Illustrated by Francois Courboin
CONTENTS
I II III IV PHYSIOGNOMY OF THE STREET SILHOUETTE OF THE INHABITANT MADAME ADOLPHE INCONVENIENCE OF QUAYS WHERE ARE BOOK STALLS
V FIRST COURSE VI SECOND COURSE VII DESSERT THIS SHOWS THAT THE WIFE OF A MAN OF SCIENCE VIII IS VERY UNHAPPY
PREPARER'S NOTE
This eBook was prepared from an edition published by Meyer Brothers and Company, New York, 1900. Of this edition 400 copies were printed. 25 copies on Japan Paper, numbered 1 to 25. 375 copies on specially made paper, numbered 26 to 400.
PREFACE
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. ...