# Facino Cane

Author: Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850; Bell, Clara, 1834-1927 [Translator]

Genre: Category: Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1737

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Facino+Cane+Balzac&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

I once used to live in a little street which probably is not known to you--the Rue de Lesdiguieres. It is a turning out of the Rue Saint-Antoine, beginning just opposite a fountain near the Place de la Bastille, and ending in the Rue de la Cerisaie. Love of knowledge stranded me in a garret; my nights I spent in work, my days in reading at the Bibliotheque d'Orleans, close by. I lived frugally; I had accepted the conditions of the monastic life, necessary conditions for every worker, scarcely permitting myself a walk along the Boulevard Bourdon when the weather was fine. One passion only had power to draw me from my studies; and yet, what was that passion but a study of another kind? I us...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/facino-cane-1737/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/facino-cane-1737/chapters/2/index.md)