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To Mademoiselle Sophie Surville,

It is a true pleasure, my dear niece, to dedicate to you this

book, the subject and details of which have won the

approbation, so difficult to win, of a young girl to whom the

world is still unknown, and who has compromised with none of

the lofty principles of a saintly education. Young girls are

indeed a formidable public, for they ought not to be allowed

to read books less pure than the purity of their souls; they

are forbidden certain reading, just as they are carefully

prevented from seeing social life as it is. Must it not

therefore be a source of pride to a writer to find that he has

pleased you?

God grant that your affection for me has not misled you. Who can tell?

—the future; which you, I hope, will see, though not, perhaps.

Your uncle,

De Balzac.