The Brotherhood of Consolation
Title | The Brotherhood of Consolation PDF eBook |
Author | Honore de Balzac |
Publisher | 谷月社 |
Total Pages | 203 |
Release | 2015-12-28 |
Genre | Fiction |
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THE MALADY OF THE AGE On a fine evening in the month of September, 1836, a man about thirty years of age was leaning on the parapet of that quay from which a spectator can look up the Seine from the Jardin des Plantes to Notre-Dame, and down, along the vast perspective of the river, to the Louvre. There is not another point of view to compare with it in the capital of ideas. We feel ourselves on the quarter-deck, as it were, of a gigantic vessel. We dream of Paris from the days of the Romans to those of the Franks, from the Normans to the Burgundians, the Middle-Ages, the Valois, Henri IV., Louis XIV., Napoleon, and Louis-Philippe. Vestiges are before us of all those sovereignties, in monuments that recall their memory. The cupola of Sainte-Genevieve towers above the Latin quarter. Behind us rises the noble apsis of the cathedral. The Hotel de Ville tells of revolutions; the Hotel-Dieu, of the miseries of Paris. After gazing at the splendors of the Louvre we can, by taking two steps, look down upon the rags and tatters of that ignoble nest of houses huddling between the quai de la Tournelle and the Hotel-Dieu,—a foul spot, which a modern municipality is endeavoring at the present moment to remove. In 1836 this marvellous scene presented still another lesson to the eye: between the Parisian leaning on the parapet and the cathedral lay the "Terrain" (such was the ancient name of this barren spot), still strewn with the ruins of the Archiepiscopal Palace. When we contemplate from that quay so many commemorating scenes, when the soul has grasped the past as it does the present of this city of Paris, then indeed Religion seems to have alighted there as if to spread her hands above the sorrows of both banks and extend her arms from the faubourg Saint-Antoine to the faubourg Saint-Marceau. Let us hope that this sublime unity may be completed by the erection of an episcopal palace of the Gothic order; which shall replace the formless buildings now standing between the "Terrain," the rue d'Arcole, the cathedral, and the quai de la Cite.
The Brotherhood of Consolation
Title | The Brotherhood of Consolation PDF eBook |
Author | Honoré de Balzac |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 348 |
Release | 1893 |
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The brotherhood of consolation. Z. Marcas
Title | The brotherhood of consolation. Z. Marcas PDF eBook |
Author | Honoré de Balzac |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 454 |
Release | 1896 |
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The Brotherhood of consolation. Z. Marcas
Title | The Brotherhood of consolation. Z. Marcas PDF eBook |
Author | Honoré de Balzac |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 410 |
Release | 1899 |
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The Brotherhood of Consolation (Classic Reprint)
Title | The Brotherhood of Consolation (Classic Reprint) PDF eBook |
Author | Honoré de Balzac |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 344 |
Release | 2016-06-25 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781332902804 |
Excerpt from The Brotherhood of Consolation This last remark made the dreamer at the parapet quiver. The man who made it little knew that, to use a proverbial expression, he was killing two birds with one stone, addressing two miseries, - a working life brought to despair, a suffering soul without a compass, the victim of what Panurge's sheep call progress, and what, in France, is called equality. The words, simple in themselves, became sublime from the tone of him who said them, in a voice that possessed a spell. Are there not, in fact, some calm and tender voices that produce upon us the same effect as a far horizon outlook? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Brotherhood of Consolation
Title | The Brotherhood of Consolation PDF eBook |
Author | Honoré de Balzac |
Publisher | Boston, Roberts brothers |
Total Pages | 348 |
Release | 1893 |
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The Brotherhood of Consolation
Title | The Brotherhood of Consolation PDF eBook |
Author | Honoré de Balzac |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 376 |
Release | 1904 |
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