Honoré de Balzac
The Lesser Bourgeoisie
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664614674
Table of Contents
PART I. THE LESSER BOURGEOIS OF PARIS
CHAPTER II. THE HISTORY OF A TYRANNY
CHAPTER IV. THE CIRCLE OF MONSIEUR AND MADAME THUILLIER
CHAPTER V. A PRINCIPAL PERSONAGE
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 XVII. IN WHICH THE LAMB DEVOURS THE WOLF
CHAPTER XVIII. SET A SAINT TO CATCH A SAINT
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 X. IN WHICH CERIZET PRACTISES THE HEALING ART AND
THE ART OF POISONING ON THE SAME DAY
CHAPTER XI. EXPLANATIONS AND WHAT CAME OF THEM
CHAPTER XIII. THE MAN WHO THINKS THE STAR TOO BRIGHT
CHAPTER XVI. CHECKMATE TO THUILLIER
CHAPTER XVII. IN THE EXERCISE OF HIS FUNCTIONS
The following personages appear in other stories of the Human Comedy.
(The Middle Classes)
PART I. THE LESSER BOURGEOIS OF PARIS
CHAPTER I. DEPARTING PARIS
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