The Lesser Bourgeoisie
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Honoré de Balzac. The Lesser Bourgeoisie
PART I. THE LESSER BOURGEOIS OF PARIS
CHAPTER I. DEPARTING PARIS
CHAPTER II. THE HISTORY OF A TYRANNY
CHAPTER III. COLLEVILLE
CHAPTER IV. THE CIRCLE OF MONSIEUR AND MADAME THUILLIER
CHAPTER V. A PRINCIPAL PERSONAGE
CHAPTER VI. A KEYNOTE
CHAPTER VII. THE WORTHY PHELLIONS
CHAPTER VIII. AD MAJOREM THEODOSIS GLORIAM
CHAPTER IX. THE BANKER OF THE POOR
CHAPTER X. HOW BRIGITTE WAS WON
CHAPTER XI. THE REIGN OF THEODOSE
CHAPTER XII. DEVILS AGAINST DEVILS
CHAPTER XIII. THE PERVERSITY OF DOVES
CHAPTER XIV. ONE OF CERIZET’S FEMALE CLIENTS
CHAPTER XV. THE DIFFICULTIES THAT CROP UP IN THE EASIEST OF THEFTS
CHAPTER XVI. DU PORTAIL
CHAPTER XVII. IN WHICH THE LAMB DEVOURS THE WOLF
CHAPTER XVIII. SET A SAINT TO CATCH A SAINT
PART II. THE PARVENUS
CHAPTER I. PHELLION, UNDER A NEW ASPECT
CHAPTER II. THE PROVENCAL’S PRESENT POSITION
CHAPTER III. GOOD BLOOD CANNOT LIE
CHAPTER IV. HUNGARY VERSUS PROVENCE
CHAPTER V. SHOWING HOW NEAR THE TARPEIAN ROCK IS TO THE CAPITOL
CHAPTER VI. ‘TWAS THUS THEY BADE ADIEU
CHAPTER VII. HOW TO SHUT THE DOOR IN PEOPLE’S FACES
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX. GIVE AND TAKE
CHAPTER X. IN WHICH CERIZET PRACTISES THE HEALING ART AND
CHAPTER XI. EXPLANATIONS AND WHAT CAME OF THEM
CHAPTER XII. A STAR
CHAPTER XIII. THE MAN WHO THINKS THE STAR TOO BRIGHT
CHAPTER XIV. A STORMY DAY
CHAPTER XV. AT DU PORTAIL’S
CHAPTER XVI. CHECKMATE TO THUILLIER
CHAPTER XVII. IN THE EXERCISE OF HIS FUNCTIONS
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The tourniquet Saint-Jean, the narrow passage entered through a turnstile, a description of which was said to be so wearisome in the study entitled “A Double Life” (Scenes from Private Life), that naive relic of old Paris, has at the present moment no existence except in our said typography. The building of the Hotel-de-Ville, such as we now see it, swept away a whole section of the city.
In 1830, passers along the street could still see the turnstile painted on the sign of a wine-merchant, but even that house, its last asylum, has been demolished. Alas! old Paris is disappearing with frightful rapidity. Here and there, in the course of this history of Parisian life, will be found preserved, sometimes the type of the dwellings of the middle ages, like that described in “Fame and Sorrow” (Scenes from Private Life), one or two specimens of which exist to the present day; sometimes a house like that of Judge Popinot, rue du Fouarre, a specimen of the former bourgeoisie; here, the remains of Fulbert’s house; there, the old dock of the Seine as it was under Charles IX. Why should not the historian of French society, a new Old Mortality, endeavor to save these curious expressions of the past, as Walter Scott’s old man rubbed up the tombstones? Certainly, for the last ten years the outcries of literature in this direction have not been superfluous; art is beginning to disguise beneath its floriated ornaments those ignoble facades of what are called in Paris “houses of product,” which one of our poets has jocosely compared to chests of drawers.
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“La Peyrade!” cried Thuillier, rising, and taking the hand of the young lawyer, “you are a very capable man.”
“Not as capable as you, but I have my merits,” said the Provencal, smiling.
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