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. Marya Mannes, ‘Broadway Speculators,’ The Reporter, 7 April 1955, p. 39. 34. Ernest Haveman, op. cit. 35. Honore de Balzac, The Thirteen (New York: Macmillan, 1901), p. 64. 36. Quoted in Look, 9 February 1954. 37. Honore de Balzac, op. cit. 38. See, for example, ‘Hearings before the Subcommittee on Study of Monopoly Power of the
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not the greater prevalence of cardiac disease of late years have been considerably influenced by the increased consumption of coffee and tea?58 Les Cafêomanes: Honoré de Balzac and the Pleasures and Pains of Caffeine Coffee is an affair of fifteen or twenty days; just the right amount of time to write an
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opera. —Gioacchino Antonio Rossini (1792–1868) to Balzac Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850), one of the greatest and most prolific storytellers in history, was unquestionably a drug addict. His drug of choice was caffeine. Because he
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predispositions or tendencies of the body, either hereditary or acquired, that rendered it liable to certain special diseases. 59. Honoré de Balzac, Traité des Excitants Modernes, unpublished translation by Robert Onopa. 60. Arnaud Baschet, Honoré de Balzac: Essai sur l’Homme et sur l’Oeuvre, Paris: Giraud et Dagneau, 1852; Geneva: Slatkin, 1973. Quoted in Graham
The Rough Guide to Paris
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isolation in the atmospheric streets, shabby hotel rooms and smoky bars of interwar Paris, all in Rhys’s spare, dream-like style. French (in translation) Honoré de Balzac The Père Goriot. Biting exposé of cruelty and selfishness in the contrasting worlds of the fashionable faubourg Saint-Germain and a down-at-heel but
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by Kate van Der Boogert · 24 Sep 2012
Boissière. Maison de Balzac MUSEUM In the residential district of Passy, near the Bois de Boulogne, sits this modest house with a courtyard and garden. Honoré de Balzac fled to this house in 1840, after his possessions and furnishings were seized, and lived there for 7 years (to see him, you had to
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peer; it has been called the “grandest address in Paris.” Everybody from Sarah Bernhardt to Oscar Wilde to Richard Wright is resting here, along with Honoré de Balzac, Jacques-Louis David, Eugène Delacroix, Maria Callas, Max Ernst, and Georges Bizet. Colette was taken here in 1954; her black granite slab always sports flowers
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words after 1852. At a similar stage of his career, in 1833, Balzac was earning thirty francs per thousand words from the Revue de Paris (Honoré de Balzac, Correspondance, ed. Roger Pierrot, vol. 2 (Paris, 1962), p. 280). * There had been a plan for a Picture Gallery which the French – the main contributors
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. 114–16, 491; PSS, vol. 3, pp. 62, 77, 143. 49. René Bouvier and Édouard Maynial, Les Comptes dramatiques de Balzac (Paris, 1938), p. 85. Honoré de Balzac, Correspondance, ed. Roger Pierrot (Paris, 1962), vol. 2, pp. 621, 740. 50. Pettitt, Patent Inventions, p. 65; Christophe Charle, ‘Le Champ de la production littéraire
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. 164. 54. Isabelle Diu and Élisabeth Parinet, Histoire des auteurs (Paris, 2013), pp. 344–7. 55. Graham Robb, Balzac: A Biography (London, 1994), p. 239; Honoré de Balzac, ‘Lettre adressée aux écrivains français du XIXe siècle’, in Oeuvres diverses, ed. Pierre-George Castex, vol. 2 (Paris, 1990), p. 1250. 56. Victor Hugo, Oeuvres
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the main theme of a work that they left no traces in the critical literature. Then, in 1829, literary cryptology took a step sideways when Honoré de Balzac published The Physiology of Marriage, one of the works that make up his immense Human Comedy. It is a long, amusing, sardonic dissertation on marriage
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especially about the deep structure of inequality, the way it is justified, and its impact on individual lives. Indeed, the novels of Jane Austen and Honoré de Balzac paint striking portraits of the distribution of wealth in Britain and France between 1790 and 1830. Both novelists were intimately acquainted with the hierarchy of
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average rate of return on land in rural societies is typically on the order of 4–5 percent. In the novels of Jane Austen and Honoré de Balzac, the fact that land (like government bonds) yields roughly 5 percent of the amount of capital invested (or, equivalently, that the value of capital corresponds
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the cases of Britain and France offers a very good introduction to the subject of wealth. The Nature of Wealth: From Literature to Reality When Honoré de Balzac and Jane Austen wrote their novels at the beginning of the nineteenth century, the nature of wealth was relatively clear to all readers. Wealth seemed
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in terms of inheritance, which was significantly less reassuring. I return to this crucial question in Part Three. 7. Inequality and Concentration: Preliminary Bearings 1. Honoré de Balzac, Le père Goriot (Paris: Livre de Poche, 1983), 123–35. 2. See Balzac, Le père Goriot, 131. To measure income and wealth, Balzac usually used
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, 98 percent of it can be saved. If the return is 10 percent, 99 percent can be saved. In any case, consumption is insignificant. 17. Honoré de Balzac, Le père Goriot (Paris: Livre de Poche, 1983), 105–9. 18. In the case of Challenges, there seem to be too few fortunes in the
Lonely Planet France
by Lonely Planet Publications · 31 Mar 2013
were all born in the Loire; Leonardo da Vinci spent the last years of his life here; and luminaries from sculptor Alexander Calder to novelist Honoré de Balzac lived and created in this region. Some, like Jean Gênet, were imprisoned here. Then there were those, like Alexandre Dumas, who were simply inspired here
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landscaped park. Built in the 1500s on a natural island in middle of the River Indre, the château is one of the Loire’s loveliest: Honoré de Balzac called it a ‘multifaceted diamond set in the River Indre’. Its most famous feature is its open loggia staircase, in the Italian style, overlooking the
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. Once home to American sculptor Alexander Calder (one of his mobiles sits in the town square), it still celebrates the life of long-time inhabitant Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850), author of La Comédie Humaine. The lovely Musée Balzac ( 02 47 26 86 50; www.musee-balzac.fr; adult/child €5/4; 10am
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sculptures, his work adorns public monuments all over France, notably at the Panthéon, the Louvre and Père Lachaise cemetery (where he carved many tombstones, including Honoré de Balzac’s). His work forms the cornerstone of this museum, housed in the converted 12th-century Toussaint Abbey and flooded with light through a striking glass
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epigraph:1 Behind every great fortune there is a crime. —Balzac QI believes that this adage was inspired by a sentence that was written by Honoré de Balzac, but the expression has been simplified in an evolutionary process. Here is the original in French from a serialization of Le Père Goriot published in
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the important 1956 citation.12 1. Mario Puzo, The Godfather (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1969), 9 (epigraph). Verified in hard copy. 2. Honoré de Balzac, “Le Père Goriot,” Revue de Paris 12 (1834): 258. Accessed in Google Books, https://goo.gl/EcNnGU. 3. “Old Goriot (Le Père Goriot)” in
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Humaine, ed. George Saintsbury, trans. Ellen Marriage (London: J. M. Dent, 1896), 124. Accessed in Google Books, https://goo.gl/5ytwfX. 4. Honoré de Balzac, La Comédie Humaine of Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, standard Wormeley ed. (Boston: Hardy, Prat, 1900), 142. Accessed in Google Books, https://goo.gl/S5ZUes. 5. “Conan Doyle’s
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, The Playboy Interview, ed. G. B. Golson (New York: Playboy Press, 1981), p. 66. “did not give life to imaginary beings”: See Mary F. Sandars, Honoré de Balzac: His Life and Writings (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1905), p. 21. “excellent fictitious names”: Allan Gurganus, “The Man Who Loved Cemeteries,” The New York Times
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