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Оноре де Бальзак. Lost Illusions
Lost Illusions
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
I
BY. HONORE DE BALZAC
DEDICATION
DE BALZAC. TWO POETS
POSTEL (LATE CHARDON), PHARMACEUTICAL CHEMIST,
"LOUISE DE NEGREPELISSE."
TO HER
ADDENDUM
II
BY. HONORE DE BALZAC
PART I
"LUCIEN."
JUST OUT
"DAVID."
"EVE."
EASTER DAISIES
THE MARGUERITE
THE CAMELLIA
THE TULIP
PART II
THE PANORAMA-DRAMATIQUE
CORALIE. AGED NINETEEN YEARS
ADDENDUM
III
BY. HONORE DE BALZAC
"LUCIEN DE RUBEMPRE."
"D'ARTHEZ."
ACCOUNT OF EXPENSES OF PROTEST AND RETURN
"LUCIEN DE R
FLORINE'S DRAWING-ROOM
"ETIENNE L."
"ANGOULEME
"LUCIEN."
ADDENDUM
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Honoré de Balzac
Published by Good Press, 2019
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Once, under pressure of the lack of money which tied their hands, the two were ruminating after the manner of young men over ways of promptly realizing a large fortune; and, after fruitless shakings of all the trees already stripped by previous comers, Lucien bethought himself of two of his father's ideas. M. Chardon had talked of a method of refining sugar by a chemical process, which would reduce the cost of production by one-half; and he had another plan for employing an American vegetable fibre for making paper, something after the Chinese fashion, and effecting an enormous saving in the cost of raw material. David, knowing the importance of a question raised already by the Didots, caught at this latter notion, saw a fortune in it, and looked upon Lucien as the benefactor whom he could never repay.
Any one may guess how the ruling thoughts and inner life of this pair of friends unfitted them for carrying on the business of a printing house. So far from making fifteen to twenty thousand francs, like Cointet Brothers, printers and publishers to the diocese, and proprietors of the Charente Chronicle (now the only newspaper in the department)—Sechard & Son made a bare three hundred francs per month, out of which the foreman's salary must be paid, as well as Marion's wages and the rent and taxes; so that David himself was scarcely making twelve hundred francs per annum. Active and industrious men of business would have bought new type and new machinery, and made an effort to secure orders for cheap printing from the Paris book trade; but master and foreman, deep in absorbing intellectual interests, were quite content with such orders as came to them from their remaining customers.
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