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The Novels of Honore de Balzac: Honorine, Colonel Chabert, The Interdiction (Classic Reprint)
The Novels of Honore de Balzac Honorine Colonel Chabert The Interdiction - Classic Reprint Author:Honore De Balzac If the French are as unwill ing as the English are eager to go traveling, perhaps the French and the English are both justified. Wherever we go we find something that is better than England, whilst it is excessively difficult to meet anything like the attractions of France outside of France. Other countries offer admirable landscapes, there may ... more »be found in them frequently a comfort superior to that of France, which indeed makes but the slowest progress in this respect. They display sometimes a magnificence, a grandeur, a bedazzling luxury; they are wanting neither in gracefulness nor in noble manners; but the intellectual I ife, the activity of ideas, the talent of conversation and that atticism so familiar in Paris, that quick understanding of that which is thought but not uttered, that genius for comprehending, which is half of the French language, is met with nowhere else. Thus the Frenchman, whose jesting is already so little comprehended, quickly withers abroad,
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