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Honoré de Balzac. Sons of the Soil
Sons of the Soil
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DEDICATION
SONS OF THE SOIL
PART I
CHAPTER I. THE CHATEAU
CHAPTER II. A BUCOLIC OVERLOOKED BY VIRGIL
CHAPTER III. THE TAVERN
CHAPTER IV. ANOTHER IDYLL
CHAPTER V. ENEMIES FACE TO FACE
CHAPTER VI. A TALE OF THIEVES
CHAPTER VII. CERTAIN LOST SOCIAL SPECIES
CHAPTER VIII. THE GREAT REVOLUTIONS OF A LITTLE VALLEY
CHAPTER IX. CONCERNING THE MEDIOCRACY
CHAPTER X. THE SADNESS OF A HAPPY WOMAN
CHAPTER XI. THE OARISTYS, EIGHTEENTH ECLOGUE OF THEOCRITUS
LITTLE ADMIRED ON THE POLICE CALENDAR
CHAPTER XII. SHOWETH HOW THE TAVERN IS THE PEOPLE’S PARLIAMENT
CHAPTER XIII. A TYPE OF THE COUNTRY USURER
PART II
CHAPTER I. THE LEADING SOCIETY OF SOULANGES
CHAPTER II. THE CONSPIRATORS IN THE QUEEN’S SALON
CHAPTER III. THE CAFE DE LA PAIX
CHAPTER IV. THE TRIUMVIRATE OF VILLE-AUX-FAYES
CHAPTER V. VICTORY WITHOUT A FIGHT
CHAPTER VI. THE FOREST AND THE HARVEST
CHAPTER VII. THE GREYHOUND
CHAPTER VIII. RURAL VIRTUE
CHAPTER IX THE CATASTROPHE
CHAPTER X. THE TRIUMPH OF THE VANQUISHED
1845
ADDENDUM
The following personages appear in other stories of the Human Comedy
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Honoré de Balzac
Published by Good Press, 2019
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Is this not our dream—the dream of all lovers of the beautiful, under whatsoever form it comes; the seraphic beauty that Luini put into his Marriage of the Virgin, that noble fresco at Sarono; the beauty that Rubens grasped in the tumult of his “Battle of the Thermodon”; the beauty that five centuries have elaborated in the cathedrals of Seville and Milan; the beauty of the Saracens at Granada, the beauty of Louis XIV. at Versailles, the beauty of the Alps, and that of this Limagne in which I stand?
Belonging to the estate, about which there is nothing too princely, nor yet too financial, where prince and farmer-general have both lived (which fact serves to explain it), are four thousand acres of woodland, a park of some nine hundred acres, the mill, three leased farms, another immense farm at Conches, and vineyards—the whole producing a revenue of about seventy thousand francs a year. Now you know Les Aigues, my dear fellow; where I have been expected for the last two weeks, and where I am at this moment, in the chintz-lined chamber assigned to dearest friends.
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