Author : Honoré de Balzac
Release : 2015-07-10
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis Scenes of Parisian Life, Vol. 6 (Classic Reprint) by : Honoré de Balzac

Download or read book Scenes of Parisian Life, Vol. 6 (Classic Reprint) written by Honoré de Balzac. This book was released on 2015-07-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Scenes of Parisian Life, Vol. 6 There were brought together under the Empire, and in Paris, thirteen men all equally possessed by the same sentiment, all of them endowed with sufficient force to remain constant to one idea, sufficiently honorable not to betray one another, even when their individual interests conflicted, sufficiently politic to conceal the sacred ties which united them, sufficiently strong to maintain themselves above all law, courageous enough to undertake anything, and fortunate enough to have almost always succeeded in their designs; having encountered the greatest dangers, but never speaking of their defeats; inaccessible to fear, and having trembled neither before the prince, the headsman, nor innocence; accepting each other for such as they were, without taking into account social prejudices; criminals undoubtedly, but certainly remarkable for some of those qualities which mark great men, and recruiting their number only from men of distinction. 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.