HONORÉ DE BALZAC

BY

THÉOPHILE GAUTIER

REVISED AND EXPANDED EDITION

PARIS

POULET‑MALASSIS ET DE BROISE

BOOKSELLERS‑PUBLISHERS

9, rue des Beaux‑Arts

1859

Translated by David Desmond

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Around 1835, I lived in two small rooms in the Impasse du Doyenné, not far from the current location of the Pavillon Mollien. Although it was located in the center of Paris facing the Tuilleries and just a few steps from the Louvre, the location was deserted and wild, and it required a certain persistence for me to be found. However, one morning a young man with a distinguished look and a cordial and spiritual air approached my front door and excused himself while making his introduction; he was Jules Sandeau: he had come to recruit me on behalf of Balzac for La Chronique de Paris, a weekly journal that one will certainly remember, but which had not been as financially successful as it deserved. Balzac, Sandeau told me, had read Mademoiselle de Maupin, then very recently published, and he had very much admired its style; thus he wished to request my collaboration

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