The Deputy of Arcis

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Honoré de Balzac. The Deputy of Arcis

The Deputy of Arcis

Table of Contents

PART I. THE ELECTION

I. ALL ELECTIONS BEGIN WITH A BUSTLE

II. REVOLT OF A LIBERAL ROTTEN-BOROUGH

III. OPPOSITION DEFINES ITSELF

IV. THE FIRST PARLIAMENTARY TEMPEST

V. THE PERPLEXITIES OF THE GOVERNMENT IN ARCIS

VI. THE CAMPAIGN OF 1814 FROM THE HOSIERY POINT OF VIEW

VII. THE BEAUVISAGE FAMILY

VIII. IN WHICH THE DOT, ONE OF THE HEROINES OF THIS HISTORY, APPEARS

IX. A STRANGER

X. THE REVELATIONS OF AN OPERA-GLASS

XI. IN WHICH THE CANDIDATE BEGINS TO LOSE VOTES

XII. THE SALON OF MADAME D’ESPARD

XIII. PREFACE BEFORE LETTERING

PART II. LETTERS EXPLANATORY

I. THE COMTE DE L’ESTORADE TO MONSIEUR MARIE-GASTON

II. THE COMTESSE DE L’ESTORADE TO MADAME OCTAVE DE CAMPS

Paris, February, 1839

III. THE COMTE DE L’ESTORADE TO MONSIEUR MARIE-GASTON

Paris, February, 1839

IV. THE COMTESSE DE L’ESTORAADE TO MADAME OCTAVE DE CAMPS

Paris, February, 1839

V. THE COMTESSE DE L’ESTORADE TO MADAME OCTAVE DE CAMPS

Paris, March, 1839

VI. THE COMTESSE DE L’ESTORADE TO MADAME OCTAVE DE CAMPS

Paris, March, 1839

VII. THE COMTESSE DE L’ESTORADE TO MADAME OCTAVE DE CAMPS

Paris, March, 1839

VIII. THE COMTESSE DE L’ESTORADE TO MADAME OCTAVE DE CAMPS

April, 1839

IX. DORLANGE TO MARIE-GASTON

Paris, April, 1839

X. DORLANGE TO MARIE-GASTON

Paris, April, 1839

XI. THE COMTESSE DE L’ESTORADE TO MADAME OCTAVE DE CAMPS

Paris, May, 1839

XII. DORLANGE TO MARIE-GASTON

Paris, May, 1839

XIII. DORLANGE TO MARIE-GASTON

Arcis-sur-Aube, May 3, 1839

XIV. MARIE-GASTON TO MADAME LA COMTESSE DE L’ESTORADE

Arcis-sur-Aube, May 6, 1839

XV. MARIE-GASTON TO THE COMTESSE DE L’ESTORADE

Arcis-sur-Aube, May 13, 1839

XVI. MARIE-GASTON TO THE COMTESSE DE L’ESTORADE

Arcis-sur-Aube, May 15, 1839

XVII. MARIE-GASTON TO MADAME LA COMTESSE DE L’ESTORADE

Arcis-sur-Aube, May 16, 1839

XVIII. CHARLES DE SALLENAUVE TO THE COMTESSE DE L’ESTORADE

7 P.m

XIX. MARIE-GASTON TO THE COMTESSE DE L’ESTORADE

Arcis-sur-Aube, May 17, 1839

PART III. MONSIEUR DE SALLENAUVE

I. THE SORROWS OF MONSIEUR DE TRAILLES

II. A CONVERSATION BETWEEN ELEVEN O’CLOCK AND MIDNIGHT

III. A MINISTER’S MORNING

IV. A CATECHISM

V. CHILDREN

VI. CURIOSITY THAT CAME WITHIN AN ACE OF BEING FATAL

VII. THE WAY TO MANAGE POLITICAL INTRIGUES

VIII. SOME OLD ACQUAINTANCES

IX. IN THE CHAMBER

ADDENDUM

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Honoré de Balzac

Published by Good Press, 2019

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Simon Giguet, like other men, paid goodly tribute to the mighty power of ridicule that pursued him. He liked to hear himself talk, and he talked on all occasions; he solemnly delivered himself of dry and long-winded sentences which passed for eloquence among the upper bourgeoisie of Arcis. The poor fellow belonged to that species of bore which desires to explain everything, even the simplest thing. He explained rain; he explained the revolution of July; he explained things impenetrable; he explained Louis-Philippe, Odilon Barrot, Monsieur Thiers, the Eastern Question; he explained Champagne; he explained 1788; he explained the tariff of custom houses and humanitarians, magnetism and the economy of the civil list.

This lean young man, with a bilious skin, tall enough to justify his sonorous nullity (for it is rare that a tall man does not have eminent faculties of some kind) outdid the puritanism of the votaries of the extreme Left, all of them so sensitive, after the manner of prudes who have their intrigues to hide. Dressed invariably in black, he wore a white cravat which came down low on his chest, so that his face seemed to issue from a horn of white paper, for the collar of his shirt was high and stiff after a fashion now, fortunately, exploded. His trousers and his coats were always too large for him. He had what is called in the provinces dignity; that is to say, he was stiffly erect and pompously dull in manner. His friend, Antonin Goulard, accused him of imitating Monsieur Dupin. And in truth, the young barrister was apt to wear shoes and stout socks of black filoselle.

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