Category: Novels

Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau

Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850; Wormeley, Katharine Prescott, 1830-1908 [Translator]· 2 chapters· 108,422 words

During winter nights noise never ceases in the Rue Saint-Honore except for a short interval. Kitchen-gardeners carrying their produce to market continue the stir of carriages returning from theatres and balls. Near the middle of this sustained pause in the grand symphony of Pa...

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1. Chapter 1

During winter nights noise never ceases in the Rue Saint-Honore except for a short interval. Kitchen-gardeners carrying their produce to market continue the stir of carriages re...

2. Chapter 2

Eight days after his ball, the last dying flash of a prosperity of eighteen years now about to be extinguished, Cesar Birotteau watched the passers-by from the windows of his sh...