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Comedy of Human Life (Volume 3) ebook

Comedy of Human Life (Volume 3) ebook

Comedy of Human Life (Volume 3) by Honore de Balzac
Comedy of Human Life (Volume 3)
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Author: Honore de Balzac
Page Count: 72 pages
Published Date: 09 Jan 2012
Publisher: General Books
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781235200243
File size: 37 Mb
File Name: Comedy.of.Human.Life.(Volume.3).pdf
Download Link: Comedy of Human Life (Volume 3)
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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1895. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... ALBERT SAVARUS. TO MADAME EMILE DE GIRARDIN. One of the few salons in which the archbishop of Besanepn presented himself during the Restoration was that of Madame la Baronne de Watteville, whom he particularly liked on account of her religious sentiments. One word about this lady, -- the most important female personage in Besanepn. Monsieur de Watteville, a descendant of the famous Watteville, the luckiest and the most illustrious of murderers and renegades (his extraordinary adventures are too well known historically to need relating here), -- Monsieur de Watteville of the nineteenth century was just as gentle, as tranquil, as his ancestor of the great epoch was fiery and turbulent. After living all his life in La Comte, like a woodlouse in the crack of a panel, he married the heiress of the celebrated family de Rupt. Mademoiselle de Rupt added an income of twenty thousand francs from landed property to the ten thousand francs a year, also from landed property, of the Baron de Watteville. The arms of the Swiss nobleman (the Wattevilles are Swiss) were quartered on those of the de Rupts. This marriage, arranged in 1802, took place in 1815, during the second Restoration. Three years after the birth of a daughter all Madame de Watteville's grandparents had died, and their property was divided. Monsieur de Watteville's house was then sold, and the family took possession of the fine mansion of the de Rupts in the rue de la Prefecture, the vast garden of which extended as far as the rue du Perron. Madame de Watteville, who was pious as a young girl, became devout after her marriage. She is one of the queens of that saintly fraternity which gives to the highest society of Besancon the gloomy tone and the prudish manners which harmonize so well with the charac...

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