Romance Literatures
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A Woman of ThirtyA Woman of Thirty It was a Sunday morning in the beginning of April 1813, a morning which gave promise of one of those bright days when Parisians, for the first time in the year, behold dry pavements underfoot and a cloudless sky overhead....
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Letters of Two BridesLetters of Two Brides Sweetheart, I too am free! And I am the first too, unless you have written to Blois, at our sweet tryst of letter-writing. Raise those great black eyes of yours, fixed on my opening sentence, and keep this excitement for...
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Louis LambertLouis Lambert Louis Lambert was born at Montoire, a little town in the Vendomois, where his father owned a tannery of no great magnitude, and intended that his son should succeed him; but his precocious bent for study modified the paternal decision. For, indeed,...
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Christ in FlandersChrist in Flanders At a dimly remote period in the history of Brabant, communication between the Island of Cadzand and the Flemish coast was kept up by a boat which carried passengers from one shore to the other. Middelburg, the chief town in the...
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Rise and Fall of Cesar BirotteauRise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau During winter nights noise never ceases in the Rue Saint-Honore except for a short interval. Kitchen-gardeners carrying their produce to market continue the stir of carriages returning from theatres and balls. Near the middle of this sustained pause...
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Penguin IslandPenguin Island Mal, a scion of a royal family of Cambria, was sent in his ninth year to the Abbey of Yvern so that he might there study both sacred and profane learning. At the age of fourteen he renounced his patrimony and took...
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Droll Stories — Volume 1Droll Stories — Volume 1 When, in March, 1832, the first volume of the now famous Contes Drolatiques was published by Gosselin of Paris, Balzac, in a short preface, written in the publisher's name, replied to those attacks which he anticipated certain critics would...
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The ChouansThe Chouans Early in the year VIII., at the beginning of Vendemiaire, or, to conform to our own calendar, towards the close of September, 1799, a hundred or so of peasants and a large number of citizens, who had left Fougeres in the morning...
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The Muse of the DepartmentThe Muse of the Department On the skirts of Le Berry stands a town which, watered by the Loire, infallibly attracts the travelers eye. Sancerre crowns the topmost height of a chain of hills, the last of the range that gives variety to the...
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La Tulipe NoireLa Tulipe NoirePlease take a look at the important information in this header. We encourage you to keep this file on your own disk, keeping an electronic path open for the next readers. Do not remove this. We produce about two million dollars for...
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The Village RectorThe Village Rector In the lower town of Limoges, at the corner of the rue de la Vieille-Poste and the rue de la Cite might have been seen, a generation ago, one of those shops which were scarcely changed from the period of the...
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Albert SavarusAlbert Savarus One of the few drawing-rooms where, under the Restoration, the Archbishop of Besancon was sometimes to be seen, was that of the Baronne de Watteville, to whom he was particularly attached on account of her religious sentiments. Monsieur de Watteville, a descendant...
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The ExilesThe Exiles In the year 1308 few houses were yet standing on the Island formed by the alluvium and sand deposited by the Seine above the Cite, behind the Church of Notre-Dame. The first man who was so bold as to build on this...
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GambaraGambara New Years Day of 1831 was pouring out its packets of sugared almonds, four oclock was striking, there was a mob in the Palais-Royal, and the eating-houses were beginning to fill. At this moment a coupe drew up at the perron and a...
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The Deputy of ArcisThe Deputy of Arcis Once in possession of the information furnished by the landlady of the Mulet and by the sub-prefect Antonin Goulard, Monsieur de Trailles had soon arranged his plan of electoral operations, and this plan evinces itself so readily that the reader...
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Tartarin of TarasconTartarin of Tarascon MY first visit to Tartarin of Tarascon has remained a never-to-be-forgotten date in my life; although quite ten or a dozen years ago, I remember it better than yesterday. At that time the intrepid Tartarin lived in the third house on...
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Cousin PonsCousin Pons Towards three oclock in the afternoon of one October day in the year 1844, a man of sixty or thereabouts, whom anybody might have credited with more than his actual age, was walking along the Boulevard des Italiens with his head bent...
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Catherine De MediciCatherine De Medici There is a general cry of paradox when scholars, struck by some historical error, attempt to correct it; but, for whoever studies modern history to its depths, it is plain that historians are privileged liars, who lend their pen to popular...
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Z. MarcasZ. Marcas I never saw anybody, not even among the most remarkable men of the day, whose appearance was so striking as this mans; the study of his countenance at first gave me a feeling of great melancholy, and at last produced an almost...
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Michael Strogoff Or, The Courier of the CzarMichael Strogoff; Or, The Courier of the Czar BOOK I. CHAPTER I. A FTE AT THE NEW PALACE CHAPTER II. RUSSIANS AND TARTARS CHAPTER III. MICHAEL STROGOFF MEETS THE CZAR CHAPTER IV. FROM MOSCOW TO NIJNI-NOVGOROD CHAPTER V. THE TWO ANNOUNCEMENTS CHAPTER VI. BROTHER...
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