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    A Street of Paris and Its Inhabitant
    A Street of Paris and Its Inhabitant
    A Street of Paris and Its Inhabitant
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    A Street of Paris and Its Inhabitant

    By François Courboin, Henri Pène du Bois and Honoré de Balzac

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      A Street of Paris and Its Inhabitant - François Courboin

      A STREET OF PARIS, by Honore De Balzac

      Project Gutenberg's A Street Of Paris And Its Inhabitant, by Honore De Balzac

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or

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      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

      Title: A Street Of Paris And Its Inhabitant

      Author: Honore De Balzac

      Release Date: November 1, 2006 [EBook #8150]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A STREET OF PARIS ***

      Produced by Dagny, John Bickers and David Widger

      A STREET OF PARIS

      AND

      ITS INHABITANT

      BY

      HONORE DE BALZAC

      Translated by

      Henri Pene du Bois

      Illustrated by

      Francois Courboin

      CONTENTS

      PREPARER'S NOTE

      This eBook was prepared from an edition published by Meyer Brothers and Company, New York, 1900.

      Of this edition 400 copies were printed. 25 copies on Japan Paper, numbered 1 to 25. 375 copies on specially made paper, numbered 26 to 400.

      PREFACE

      This little Parisian silhouette in prose was written by Balzac to be the first chapter of a new series of the Comedie Humaine that he was preparing while the first was finishing. Balzac was never tired. He said that the men who were tired were those who rested and tried to work afterwards.

      A Street of Paris and its Inhabitant was in its author's mind when Hetzel, engaged in collecting a copy for the work entitled Le Diable a Paris that all book lovers admire, asked Balzac for an unpublished manuscript.

      Balzac gave him this, after retouching it, in order that it should have the air of a finished story. Why Hetzel did not use it in Le Diable a Paris, no one knows. He went into exile, in Brussels, at the military revolution that made Napoleon III Emperor and, needing money, sold "A Street of Paris

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