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by Honore de Balzac
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The Collection of Antiquities Summary
| There stands a house at a corner of a street, in the middle of a town, in one of the least important prefectures in France, but the name of the street and the name of the town must be suppressed here. Every one will appreciate the motives of this sage reticence demanded by convention; for if a writer takes upon himself the office of annalist of his own time, he is bound to touch on many sore subjects. The house was called the Hotel d’Esgrignon; but let d’Esgrignon be considered a mere fancy name, neither more nor less connected with real people than the conventional Belval, Floricour, or Derville of the stage, or the Adalberts and Mombreuses of romance. After all, the names of the principal characters will be quite as much disguised; for though in this history the chronicler would prefer to conceal the facts under a mass of contradictions, anachronisms, improbabilities, and absurdities, the truth will out in spite of him. You uproot a vinestock, as you imagine, and the stem will send up lusty shoots after you have ploughed your vineyard over. |
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| Balzac, master of the French novel and the author of Pere Goriot, also wrote short stories about life in provincial France. This is a collection of these well-crafted tales. Newly designed and typeset in a modern 6-by-9-inch format by Waking Lion Press. |
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