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+                          A STREET OF PARIS
+
+                                 AND
+
+                            ITS INHABITANT
+
+                                  BY
+
+                           HONORE DE BALZAC
+
+
+
+                            Translated by
+
+                          Henri Pene du Bois
+
+
+                           Illustrated by
+
+                          Francois Courboin
+
+
+
+
+                           PREPARER'S NOTE
+
+  This eBook was prepared from an edition published by Meyer
+  Brothers and Company, New York, 1900.
+
+  Of this edition 400 copies were printed.
+  25 copies on Japan Paper, numbered 1 to 25.
+  375 copies on specially made paper, numbered 26 to 400.
+
+
+
+                               PREFACE
+
+This little Parisian silhouette in prose was written by Balzac to be
+the first chapter of a new series of the "Comedie Humaine" that he was
+preparing while the first was finishing. Balzac was never tired. He
+said that the men who were tired were those who rested and tried to
+work afterwards.
+
+"A Street of Paris and its Inhabitant" was in its author's mind when
+Hetzel, engaged in collecting a copy for the work entitled "Le Diable
+a Paris" that all book lovers admire, asked Balzac for an unpublished
+manuscript.
+
+Balzac gave him this, after retouching it, in order that it should
+have the air of a finished story. Why Hetzel did not use it in "Le
+Diable a Paris," no one knows. He went into exile, in Brussels, at the
+military revolution that made Napoleon III Emperor and, needing money,
+sold "A Street of Paris and its Inhabitant" with other manuscripts to
+Le Siecle.
+
+Balzac's work was printed entire in three pages of the journal Le
+Siecle, in Paris, July 28, 1845. M. le Vicomte Spoelberch de Lovenjoul
+owns Balzac's autograph manuscript of it. These details are given by
+him and might be reproduced here with his signature. But the
+publishers wish not to be deprived of the pleasure of paying homage to
+the Vicomte Spoelberch de Lovenjoul.
+
+He has made in the biography of Balzac, in editions of his books, in
+the pious collection of his unpublished writings, the ideal literary
+man's monument.
+
+H. P. du B.
+
+
+
+                                  I
+
+                      PHYSIOGNOMY OF THE STREET
+
+Paris has curved streets, streets that are serpentine. It counts,
+perhaps, only the Rue Boudreau in the Chaussee d'Antin and the Rue
+Duguay-Trouin near the Luxembourg as streets shaped exactly like a
+T-square. The Rue Duguay-Trouin extends one of its two arms to the Rue
+d'Assas and the other to the Rue de Fleurus.
+
+In 1827 the Rue Duguay-Trouin was paved neither on one side nor on the
+other; it was lighted neither at its angle nor at its ends. Perhaps it
+is not, even to-day, paved or lighted. In truth, this street has so
+few houses, or the houses are so modest, that one does not see them;
+the city's forgetfulness of them is explained, then, by their little
+importance.
+
+Lack of solidity in the soil is a reason for that state of things. The
+street is situated on a point of the Catacombs so dangerous that a
+portion of the road disappeared recently, leaving an excavation to the
+astonished eyes of the scarce inhabitants of that corner of Paris.
+
+A great clamor arose in the newspapers about it. The government corked
+up the "Fontis"--such is the name of that territorial bankruptcy--and
+the gardens that border the street, destitute of passers-by, were
+reassured the more easily because the tax list did not weigh on them.
+
+The arm of the street that extends to the Rue de Fleurus is entirely
+occupied, at the left, by a wall on the top of which shine broken
+bottles and iron lances fixed in the plaster--a sort of warning to
+hands of lovers and of thieves.
+
+In this wall is a door, the famous little garden door, so necessary to
+dramas and to novels, which is beginning to disappear from Paris.
+
+This door, painted in dark green, having an invisible lock, and on
+which the tax collector had not yet painted a number; this wall, along
+which grow thistles and grass with beaded blades; this street, with
+furrows made by the wheels of wagons; other walls gray and crowned
+with foliage, are in harmony with the silence that reigns in the
+Luxembourg, in the convent of the Carmelites, in the gardens of the
+Rue de Fleurus.
+
+If you went there, you would ask yourself, "Who can possibly live
+here?"
+
+Who? Wait and see.
+
+
+
+                                  II
+
+                     SILHOUETTE OF THE INHABITANT
+
+One day, about three in the afternoon, that door was opened. Out of it
+came a little old man, fat, provided with an abdomen heavy and
+projecting which obliges him to make many sacrifices. He has to wear
+trousers excessively wide, not to be troubled in walking. He has
+renounced, long ago, the use of boots and trouser straps. He wears
+shoes. His shoes were hardly polished.
+
+The waistcoat, incessantly impelled to the upper part of the gastric
+cavities by that great abdomen, and depressed by the weight of two
+thoracic bumps that would make the happiness of a thin woman, offers
+to the pleasantries of the passers-by a perfect resemblance to a
+napkin rolled on the knees of a guest absorbed in discussion at
+dessert.
+
+The legs are thin, the arm is long, one of the hands is gloved only on
+most solemn occasions and the other hand ignores absolutely the
+advantage of a second skin.
+
+That personage avoids the alms and the pity that his venerable green
+frock coat invites, by wearing the red ribbon at his button-hole. This
+proves the utility of the Order of the Legion of Honor which has been
+contested too much in the past ten years, the new Knights of the Order
+say.
+
+The battered hat, in a constant state of horror in the places where a
+reddish fuzz endures, would not be picked up by a rag picker, if the
+little old man let it fall and left it at a street corner.
+
+Too absent-minded to submit to the bother that the wearing of a wig
+entails, that man of science--he is a man of science--shows, when he
+makes a bow, a head that, viewed from the top, has the appearance of
+the Farnese Hercules's knee.
+
+Above each ear, tufts of twisted white hair shine in the sun like the
+angry silken hairs of a boar at bay. The neck is athletic and
+recommends itself to the notice of caricaturists by an infinity of
+wrinkles, of furrows; by a dewlap faded but armed with darts in the
+fashion of thistles.
+
+The constant state of the beard explains at once why the necktie,
+always crumpled and rolled by the gestures of a disquiet head, has its
+own beard, infinitely softer than that of the good old man, and formed
+of threads scratched from its unfortunate tissue.
+
+Now, if you have divined the torso and the powerful back, you will
+know the sweet tempered face, somewhat pale, the blue ecstatic eyes
+and the inquisitive nose of that good old man, when you learn that, in
+the morning, wearing a silk head kerchief and tightened in a dressing-
+gown, the illustrious professor--he is a professor--resembled an old
+woman so much that a young man who came from the depths of Saxony, of
+Weimar, or of Prussia, expressly to see him, said to him, "Forgive me,
+Madame!" and withdrew.
+
+This silhouette of one of the most learned and most venerated members
+of the Institute betrays so well enthusiasm for study and absent-
+mindedness caused by application to the quest of truth, that you must
+recognize in it the celebrated Professor Jean Nepomucene Apollodore
+Marmus de Saint-Leu, one of the most admirable men of genius of our
+time.
+
+
+
+                                 III
+
+                            MADAME ADOLPHE
+
+When the old man--the professor counted then sixty-two summers--had
+walked three steps, he turned his head at this question, hurled in an
+acute tone by a voice that he recognized:
+
+"Have you a handkerchief?"
+
+A woman stood on the step of the garden door and was watching her
+master with solicitude.
+
+She seemed to be fifty years of age, and her dress indicated that she
+was one of those servants who are invested with full authority in
+household affairs.
+
+She was darning stockings.
+
+The man of science came back and said naively:
+
+"Yes, Madame Adolphe, I have my handkerchief."
+
+"Have you your spectacles?" she asked.
+
+The man of science felt the side pocket of his waistcoat.
+
+"I have them," he replied.
+
+"Show them to me," she said. "Often you have only the case."
+
+The professor took the case out of his pocket and showed the
+spectacles with a triumphant air.
+
+"You would do well to keep them on your nose," she said.
+
+M. de Saint-Leu put on his spectacles, after rubbing the glasses with
+his handkerchief.
+
+Naturally, he thrust the handkerchief under his left arm while he set
+his spectacles on his nose. Then he walked a few steps towards the Rue
+de Fleurus and relaxed his hold on the handkerchief, which fell.
+
+"I was sure of it," said Madame Adolphe to herself. She picked up the
+handkerchief and cried:
+
+"Monsieur! Monsieur!"
+
+"Well!" exclaimed the professor, made indignant by her watchfulness.
+
+"I beg your pardon," he said, receiving the handkerchief.
+
+"Have you any money?" asked Madame Adolphe with maternal solicitude.
+
+"I need none," he replied naively, explaining thus the lives of all
+men of science.
+
+"It depends," Madame Adolphe said. "If you go by way of the Pont des
+Arts you need one sou."
+
+"You are right," replied the man of science, as if he were retracing
+instructions for a voyage to the North Pole. "I will go through the
+Luxembourg, the Rue de Seine, the Pont des Arts, the Louvre, the Rue
+du Coq, the Rue Croix-des-Petits-Champs, the Rue des Fosses-
+Montmartre. It is the shortest route to the Faubourg Poissonniere."
+
+"It is three o'clock," Madame Adolphe said. "Your sister-in-law dines
+at six. You have three hours before you--Yes--you'll be there, but
+you'll be late." She searched her apron pocket for two sous, which she
+handed to the professor.
+
+"Very well, then," she said to him. "Do not eat too much. You are not
+a glutton, but you think of other things. You are frugal, but you eat
+when you are absent-minded as if you had no bread at home. Take care
+not to make Madame Vernet, your sister-in-law, wait. If you make her
+wait, you will never be permitted again to go there alone, and it will
+be shameful for you."
+
+Madame Adolphe returned to the threshold of the little door and from
+there watched her master. She had to cry to him, "To the right! To the
+right!" for he was turning toward the Rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs.
+
+"And yet he is a man of science, people say," she muttered to herself.
+"How did he ever manage to get married? I'll ask Madame when I dress
+her hair."
+
+
+
+                                  IV
+
+             INCONVENIENCE OF QUAYS WHERE ARE BOOK STALLS
+
+At four o'clock, Professor Marmus was at the end of the Rue de Seine,
+under the arcades of the Institute. Those who know him will admit that
+he had done nobly, since he had taken only one hour to go through the
+Luxembourg and down the Rue de Seine.
+
+There a lamentable voice, the voice of a child, plucked from the good
+man the two sous that Madame Adolphe had given to him. When he reached
+the Pont des Arts he remembered that he had to pay toll and turned
+back suddenly to beg for a sou from the child.
+
+The little rascal had gone to break the coin, in order to give only
+one sou to his mother. She was walking up and down the Rue Mazarine
+with her baby at her breast.
+
+It became necessary for the professor to turn his back on the veteran
+soldier who guards against the possibility of a Parisian passing over
+the bridge without paying the toll.
+
+Two roads were open to him: the Pont Neuf and the Pont Royal.
+Curiosity makes one lose more time in Paris than anywhere else.
+
+How may one walk without looking at those little oblong boxes, wide as
+the stones of the parapet, that all along the quays stimulate book
+lovers with posters saying, "Four Sous--Six Sous--Ten Sous--Twelve
+Sous--Thirty Sous?" These catacombs of glory have devoured many hours
+that belonged to the poets, to the philosophers and to the men of
+science of Paris.
+
+Great is the number of ten-sous pieces spent in the four-sous stalls!
+
+The professor saw a pamphlet by Vicq-d'Azyr, a complete Charles Bonnet
+in the edition of Fauche Borel, and an essay on Malus.
+
+"And such then is the sum of our achievements," he said to himself.
+"Malus! A genius arrested in his course when he had almost captured
+the empire of light! But we have had Fresnel. Fresnel has done
+excellent things!--Oh, they will recognize some day that light is only
+a mode of substance."
+
+The professor held the notice on Malus. He turned its pages. He had
+known Malus. He recalled to himself and recited the names of all the
+Maluses. Then he returned to Malus, to his dear Malus, for they had
+entered the Institute together at the return to Paris of the
+expedition to Egypt. Ah! It was then the Institute of France and not a
+mass of disunited Academies.
+
+"The Emperor had preserved," said Marmus to himself, "the saintly idea
+of the Convention. I remember," he muttered aloud, "what he said to me
+when I was presented to him as a member of the Institute. Napoleon the
+First said, 'Marmus, I am the Emperor of the French, but you are the
+King of the infinitely little and you will organize them as I have
+organized the Empire.' Ah, he was a very great man and a man of wit!
+The French appreciated this too late."
+
+The professor replaced Malus and the essay on him in the ten-sous
+stall, without remarking how often hope had been lit and extinguished
+alternately in the gray eyes of an old woman seated on a stool in an
+angle of the quay.
+
+"He was there," Marmus said, pointing to the Tuileries on the opposite
+bank of the river. "I saw him reviewing his sublime troops! I saw him
+thin, ardent as the sands of Egypt; but, as soon as he became Emperor,
+he grew fat and good-natured, for all fat men are excellent--this is
+why Sinard is thin, he is a gall-making machine. But would Napoleon
+have supported my theory?"
+
+
+
+                                  V
+
+                             FIRST COURSE
+
+It was the hour at which they went to the dinner table in the house of
+Marmus's sister-in-law. The professor walked slowly toward the Chamber
+of Deputies, asking himself if his theory might have had Napoleon's
+support. He could no longer judge Napoleon save from that point of
+view. Did Napoleon's genius coincide with that of Marmus in regard to
+the assimilation of things engendered by an attraction perpetual and
+continuous?
+
+
+
+                                  VI
+
+                            SECOND COURSE
+
+"No, Baron Sinard was a worshipper of power. He would have gone to the
+Emperor and told him that my theory was the inspiration of an atheist.
+And Napoleon, who has done a great deal of religious sermonizing for
+political reasons, would have persecuted me. He had no love for ideas.
+He was a courtier of facts! Moreover, in Napoleon's time, it would not
+have been possible for me to communicate freely with Germany. Would
+they have lent me their aid--Wytheimler, Grosthuys, Scheele, Stamback,
+Wagner?
+
+"To make men of science agree--men of science agree!--the Emperor
+should have made peace; in time of peace, perhaps, he would have taken
+an interest in my quarrel with Sinard! Sinard, my friend, my pupil,
+become my antagonist, my enemy! He, a man of genius--
+
+"Yes, he is a man of genius. I do justice to him in the face of all
+the world."
+
+At this moment the professor could talk aloud without trouble to
+himself or to the passers-by. He was near the Chamber of Deputies, the
+session was closed, all Paris was at dinner--except the man of
+science.
+
+Marmus was haranguing the statues which, it must be conceded, are
+similar to all audiences. In France there is not an audience that is
+not prohibited from giving marks of approval or disapproval.
+Otherwise, there is not an audience that would not turn orator.
+
+At the Iena bridge Marmus had a pain in the stomach. He heard the
+hoarse voice of a cab driver. Marmus thought that he was ill and let
+himself be ushered into the cab. He made himself comfortable in it.
+
+When the driver asked, "Where?" Marmus replied quietly:
+
+"Home."
+
+"Where is your home, Monsieur?" asked the driver.
+
+"Number three," Marmus replied.
+
+"What street?" asked the driver.
+
+"Ah, you are right, my friend. But this is extraordinary," he said,
+taking the driver into his confidence. "I have been so busy comparing
+the hyoides and the caracoides--yes, that's it. I will catch Sinard in
+the act. At the next session of the Institute he will have to yield to
+evidence."
+
+The driver wrapped his ragged cloak around him. Resignedly, he was
+saying to himself, "I have seen many odd folks, but this one--" He
+heard the word "Institute."
+
+"The Institute, Monsieur?" he asked.
+
+"Yes, my friend, the Institute," replied Marmus.
+
+"Well he wears the red ribbon," said the driver to himself. "Perhaps
+he has something to do with the Institute."
+
+The professor, infinitely more comfortable in his cab than on the
+sidewalk, devoted himself entirely to solving the problem that went
+against his theory and would not surrender--the rascal! The cab stops
+at the Institute; the janitor sees the Academician and bows to him
+respectfully. The cab driver, his suspicions dispelled, talks with the
+janitor of the Institute while the illustrious professor goes--at
+eight in the evening--to the Academie des Sciences.
+
+The cab driver tells the janitor where he found his fare.
+
+"At the Iena bridge," repeats the janitor. "M. Marmus was coming back
+from Passy. He had dined, doubtless, with M. Planchette, one of his
+friends of the Academy."
+
+"He couldn't tell me his address," says the cab driver.
+
+"He lives in the Rue Duguay-Trouin, Number three," says the janitor.
+
+"What a neighborhood!" exclaims the driver.
+
+"My friend," asks of the janitor the professor who had found the door
+shut, "is there no meeting of the Academy to-day?"
+
+"To-day!" exclaims the janitor. "At this hour!"
+
+"What is the time?" asks the man of science.
+
+"About eight o'clock," the janitor replies.
+
+"It is late," comments M. Marmus. "Take me home, driver."
+
+The driver goes through the quays, the Rue du Bac, falls into a tangle
+of wagons, returns by the Rue de Grenelle, the Croix-Rouge, the Rue
+Cassette, then he makes a mistake. He tries to find the Rue d'Assas,
+in the Rue Honore-Chevalier, in the Rue Madame, in all the impossible
+streets and, swearing that if he had known he would not have come so
+far for a hundred sous, disembarks the professor in the Rue Duguay-
+Trouin.
+
+The cab driver claims an hour, for the police ordinances, that defend
+consumers of time in cabs from the stratagems of cab drivers, had not
+yet posted the walls of Paris with their protecting articles that
+settle in advance all difficulties.
+
+"Very well, my friend," says M. Marmus to the cab driver. "Pay him,"
+M. Marmus says to Madame Adolphe. "I do not feel well, my child."
+
+"Monsieur, what did I tell you?" she exclaimed. "You have eaten too
+much. While you were away, I said to myself, 'It is Mme. Vernet's
+birthday. They will urge him at table and he will come back sick.'
+Well, go to bed. I will make camomile tea for you."
+
+
+
+                                 VII
+
+                               DESSERT
+
+The professor walked through the garden into a pavilion at one of its
+corners, where he lived alone in order not to be disturbed by his
+wife.
+
+He went up the stairway leading to his little room, and complained so
+much of his pains in the stomach that Madame Adolphe filled him with
+camomile tea.
+
+"Ah, here is a carriage! It is Madame returning in great anxiety, I am
+sure," said Madame Adolphe, giving to the professor his sixth cup of
+camomile tea. "Now, sir, I hope that you will be able to drink it
+without me. Do not let it fall all over your bed. You know how Madame
+would laugh. You are very happy to have a little wife who is so
+amiable and so joyful."
+
+"Say nothing to her, my child," exclaimed the professor, whose
+features expressed a sort of childish fear.
+
+The truly great man is always more or less a child.
+
+
+
+                                 VIII
+
+     THIS SHOWS THAT THE WIFE OF A MAN OF SCIENCE IS VERY UNHAPPY
+
+"Well, good-bye. Return in the cab, it is paid for," Madame Marmus was
+saying when Madame Adolphe arrived at the door.
+
+The cab had already turned the corner. Madame Adolphe, not having seen
+Madame Marmus's escort, said to herself:
+
+"Poor Madame! He must be her nephew."
+
+Madame Marmus, a little woman, lithe, graceful, mirthful, was divinely
+dressed and in a fashion too young for her age, counting her twenty-
+five years as a wife. Nevertheless, she wore well a gown with small
+pink stripes, a cape embroidered and edged with lace, boots pretty as
+the wings of a butterfly. She carried in her hand a pink hat with
+peach flowers.
+
+"You see, Madame Adolphe," she said, "my hair is all uncurled. I told
+you that in this hot weather it should be dressed in bandeaux."
+
+"Madame," the servant replied, "Monsieur is very sick. You let him eat
+too much."
+
+"What could I do?" Madame Marmus replied. "He was at one end of the
+table and I at the other. He returned without me, as his habit is!
+Poor little man! I will go to him as soon as I change my dress."
+
+Madame Adolphe returns to the pavilion to propose an emetic, and
+scolds the professor for not having returned with Madame Marmus.
+
+"Since you wished to come in a cab, you might have spared me the
+expense of the one that Madame Marmus took. The charge for your cab
+was an hour. Did you stop anywhere?"
+
+"At the Institute," he replied.
+
+"At the Institute! Where did you take the cab?" she asked.
+
+"In front of a bridge, I think," he replied.
+
+"Was it still daylight?" she asked.
+
+"Almost," he said.
+
+"Then you did not go to Madame Vernet's!" exclaimed Madame Adolphe.
+
+"Why did you not come to Madame Vernet's?" asked his wife.
+
+Madame Marmus, having come to the door on the tips of her toes, had
+heard Madame Adolphe's exclamation. She did not wish to see Madame
+Adolphe's astonishment. Surely Madame Adolphe could not have forgotten
+the assurance with which the professor's wife had placed him in
+imagination at Madame Vernet's table.
+
+"My dear child, I do not know," said the professor in a repentant
+tone.
+
+"Then you have not dined," said Madame Marmus, whose attitude remained
+that of the purest innocence.
+
+"With what could he have dined, Madame? He had two sous," said Madame
+Adolphe, looking at Madame Marmus with an accusing air.
+
+"Ah, I am truly to be pitied, my poor Madame Adolphe," said Madame
+Marmus. "This sort of thing has been going on for twenty years, and I
+am not yet accustomed to it. Six days after our wedding, we were going
+out of our room one morning to take breakfast. M. Marmus hears the
+drum of the Polytechnic School pupils of whom he was the professor. He
+quits me to go and see them pass. I was nineteen years of age and when
+I pouted, you cannot guess what he said to me. He said, 'These young
+people are the flower and the glory of France!' This is how my
+marriage began. You can judge of the rest."
+
+"Oh, Monsieur, is it possible?" asked Madame Adolphe with an indignant
+air.
+
+"I have cornered Sinard!" exclaimed M. Marmus triumphantly.
+
+"Oh, he would let himself die!" exclaimed Madame Adolphe.
+
+"Get something for him to eat," said Madame Marmus. "He would let
+himself do anything. Ah, my good Madame Adolphe, a man of science, you
+see, is a man who knows nothing--of life."
+
+The malady was cured by a cataplasm of Italian cheese that the man of
+science ate without knowing what he was eating, for he held Sinard in
+a corner--
+
+"Poor Madame," said the kind Madame Adolphe. "I pity you. He was
+really so absent-minded as that!"
+
+And Madame Adolphe forgot the strange avowal of her mistress.
+
+
+
+
+
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