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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: A Street Of Paris And Its Inhabitant + +Author: Honore De Balzac + +Release Date: November 1, 2006 [EBook #8150] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A STREET OF PARIS *** + + + + +Produced by Dagny, John Bickers and David Widger + + + + + +</pre> + <p> + <a name="linkbegin" id="linkbegin"></a><br /> + </p> + <h1> + A STREET OF PARIS + </h1> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <h2> + AND + </h2> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <h1> + ITS INHABITANT + </h1> + <p> + <br /><br /><br /><br /> + </p> + <h3> + BY + </h3> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <h2> + HONORE DE BALZAC + </h2> + <p> + <br /> <br /> + </p> + <h4> + Translated by + </h4> + <h4> + Henri Pene du Bois + </h4> + <p> + <br /> <br /> + </p> + <h4> + Illustrated by + </h4> + <h4> + Francois Courboin + </h4> + <p> + <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:60%"> + <img alt="titlepage3.jpg (46K)" src="images/titlepage3.jpg" width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <p> + <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> + </p> + <h2> + CONTENTS + </h2> + <table summary="contents"> + <tr> + <td> + </td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td> + I + </td> + <td> + <a href="#linkc1">PHYSIOGNOMY OF THE STREET</a> + </td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td> + II + </td> + <td> + <a href="#linkc2">SILHOUETTE OF THE INHABITANT</a> + </td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td> + III + </td> + <td> + <a href="#linkc3">MADAME ADOLPHE</a> + </td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td> + IV + </td> + <td> + <a href="#linkc4">INCONVENIENCE OF QUAYS WHERE ARE BOOK STALLS</a> + </td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td> + V + </td> + <td> + <a href="#linkc5">FIRST COURSE</a> + </td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td> + VI + </td> + <td> + <a href="#linkc6">SECOND COURSE</a> + </td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td> + VII + </td> + <td> + <a href="#linkc7">DESSERT</a> + </td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td> + VIII + </td> + <td> + <a href="#linkc8">THIS SHOWS THAT THE WIFE OF A MAN OF SCIENCE IS VERY + UNHAPPY</a> + </td> + </tr> + </table> + <p> + <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> + </p> + <h2> + PREPARER'S NOTE + </h2> + <p> + This eBook was prepared from an edition published by Meyer Brothers and + Company, New York, 1900. + </p> + <p> + 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. + </p> + <p> + <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> + </p> + <h2> + PREFACE + </h2> + <div class="figleft" style="width:20%;"> + <img width="100%" src="images/27a.jpg" alt="Illustrated T." /> + </div> + <p> + 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. + </p> + <p> + "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. + </p> + <p> + 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. + </p> + <p> + 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. + </p> + <p> + 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. + </p> + <p> + H. P. du B. + </p> + <p> + <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:60%"> + <img alt="01a.jpg (44K)" src="images/01a.jpg" width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <p> + <br /> <br /> <a name="linkc1" id="linkc1"></a> <br /><br /> + </p> + <h1> + I + </h1> + <h2> + PHYSIOGNOMY OF THE STREET + </h2> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <p> + 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. + </p> + <p> + 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. + </p> + <p> + 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. + </p> + <p> + 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. + </p> + <p> + 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. + </p> + <p> + <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:60%"> + <img alt="03a.jpg (29K)" src="images/03a.jpg" width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <p> + <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> + </p> + <p> + 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. + </p> + <p> + 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. + </p> + <p> + If you went there, you would ask yourself, "Who can possibly live here?" + </p> + <p> + Who? Wait and see. + </p> + <p> + <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="linkc2" id="linkc2"></a> <br /><br /> + </p> + <h1> + II + </h1> + <h2> + SILHOUETTE OF THE INHABITANT + </h2> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <div class="figleft" style="width:20%;"> + <img width="100%" src="images/04a.jpg" alt="Illustrated 0." /> + </div> + <p> + 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. + </p> + <p> + 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. + </p> + <p> + 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. + </p> + <p> + <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:60%"> + <img alt="05a.jpg (23K)" src="images/05a.jpg" width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <p> + <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> + </p> + <p> + 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. + </p> + <p> + 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. + </p> + <p> + 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. + </p> + <p> + 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. + </p> + <p> + 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. + </p> + <p> + <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:60%"> + <img alt="06a.jpg (25K)" src="images/06a.jpg" width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <p> + <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> + </p> + <p> + 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. + </p> + <p> + 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. + </p> + <p> + <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:60%"> + <img alt="07a.jpg (20K)" src="images/07a.jpg" width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <p> + <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="linkc3" id="linkc3"></a> + <br /><br /> + </p> + <h1> + III + </h1> + <h2> + MADAME ADOLPHE + </h2> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <div class="figleft" style="width:20%;"> + <img width="100%" src="images/29a.jpg" alt="Illustrated W." /> + </div> + <p> + 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: + </p> + <p> + "Have you a handkerchief?" + </p> + <p> + A woman stood on the step of the garden door and was watching her master + with solicitude. + </p> + <p> + 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. + </p> + <p> + She was darning stockings. + </p> + <p> + The man of science came back and said naively: + </p> + <p> + "Yes, Madame Adolphe, I have my handkerchief." + </p> + <p> + "Have you your spectacles?" she asked. + </p> + <p> + <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:60%"> + <img alt="09a.jpg (22K)" src="images/09a.jpg" width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <p> + <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> + </p> + <p> + The man of science felt the side pocket of his waistcoat. + </p> + <p> + "I have them," he replied. + </p> + <p> + "Show them to me," she said. "Often you have only the case." + </p> + <p> + The professor took the case out of his pocket and showed the spectacles + with a triumphant air. + </p> + <p> + "You would do well to keep them on your nose," she said. + </p> + <p> + M. de Saint-Leu put on his spectacles, after rubbing the glasses with his + handkerchief. + </p> + <p> + 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. + </p> + <p> + "I was sure of it," said Madame Adolphe to herself. She picked up the + handkerchief and cried: + </p> + <p> + "Monsieur! Monsieur!" + </p> + <p> + "Well!" exclaimed the professor, made indignant by her watchfulness. + </p> + <p> + "I beg your pardon," he said, receiving the handkerchief. + </p> + <p> + <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:60%"> + <img alt="10a.jpg (40K)" src="images/10a.jpg" width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <p> + <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> + </p> + <p> + "Have you any money?" asked Madame Adolphe with maternal solicitude. + </p> + <p> + "I need none," he replied naively, explaining thus the lives of all men of + science. + </p> + <p> + "It depends," Madame Adolphe said. "If you go by way of the Pont des Arts + you need one sou." + </p> + <p> + "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." + </p> + <p> + "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. + </p> + <p> + "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." + </p> + <p> + 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. + </p> + <p> + "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." + </p> + <p> + <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:60%"> + <img alt="12a.jpg (16K)" src="images/12a.jpg" width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <p> + <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="linkc4" id="linkc4"></a> + <br /><br /> + </p> + <h1> + IV + </h1> + <h2> + INCONVENIENCE OF QUAYS <br />WHERE ARE BOOK STALLS + </h2> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <div class="figleft" style="width:20%;"> + <img width="100%" src="images/13a.jpg" alt="Illustrated A." /> + </div> + <p> + 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. + </p> + <p> + 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. + </p> + <p> + <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:60%"> + <img alt="14a.jpg (27K)" src="images/14a.jpg" width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <p> + <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> + </p> + <p> + 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. + </p> + <p> + 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. + </p> + <p> + Two roads were open to him: the Pont Neuf and the Pont Royal. Curiosity + makes one lose more time in Paris than anywhere else. + </p> + <p> + 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. + </p> + <p> + Great is the number of ten-sous pieces spent in the four-sous stalls! + </p> + <p> + <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:60%"> + <img alt="16a.jpg (37K)" src="images/16a.jpg" width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <p> + <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> + </p> + <p> + The professor saw a pamphlet by Vicq-d'Azyr, a complete Charles Bonnet in + the edition of Fauche Borel, and an essay on Malus. + </p> + <p> + "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." + </p> + <p> + 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. + </p> + <p> + "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." + </p> + <p> + 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. + </p> + <p> + "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?" + </p> + <p> + <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:60%"> + <img alt="17a.jpg (25K)" src="images/17a.jpg" width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <p> + <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="linkc5" id="linkc5"></a> + <br /><br /> + </p> + <h1> + V + </h1> + <h2> + FIRST COURSE + </h2> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <div class="figleft" style="width:20%;"> + <img width="100%" src="images/18a.jpg" alt="Illustrated A." /> + </div> + <p> + 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? + </p> + <p> + <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> <a name="linkc6" id="linkc6"></a> + <br /><br /> + </p> + <h1> + VI + </h1> + <h2> + SECOND COURSE + </h2> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <div class="figleft" style="width:20%;"> + <img width="100%" src="images/19a.jpg" alt="Illustrated A." /> + </div> + <p> + "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? + </p> + <p> + "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— + </p> + <p> + "Yes, he is a man of genius. I do justice to him in the face of all the + world." + </p> + <p> + 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. + </p> + <p> + <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:60%"> + <img alt="20a.jpg (17K)" src="images/20a.jpg" width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <p> + <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> + </p> + <p> + 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. + </p> + <p> + 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. + </p> + <p> + <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:60%"> + <img alt="21a.jpg (34K)" src="images/21a.jpg" width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <p> + <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> + </p> + <p> + When the driver asked, "Where?" Marmus replied quietly: + </p> + <p> + "Home." + </p> + <p> + "Where is your home, Monsieur?" asked the driver. + </p> + <p> + "Number three," Marmus replied. + </p> + <p> + "What street?" asked the driver. + </p> + <p> + "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." + </p> + <p> + <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:60%"> + <img alt="22a.jpg (38K)" src="images/22a.jpg" width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <p> + <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> + </p> + <p> + 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." + </p> + <p> + "The Institute, Monsieur?" he asked. + </p> + <p> + "Yes, my friend, the Institute," replied Marmus. + </p> + <p> + "Well he wears the red ribbon," said the driver to himself. "Perhaps he + has something to do with the Institute." + </p> + <p> + 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. + </p> + <p> + The cab driver tells the janitor where he found his fare. + </p> + <p> + "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." + </p> + <p> + "He couldn't tell me his address," says the cab driver. + </p> + <p> + <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:60%"> + <img alt="24a.jpg (47K)" src="images/24a.jpg" width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <p> + <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> + </p> + <p> + "He lives in the Rue Duguay-Trouin, Number three," says the janitor. + </p> + <p> + "What a neighborhood!" exclaims the driver. + </p> + <p> + "My friend," asks of the janitor the professor who had found the door + shut, "is there no meeting of the Academy to-day?" + </p> + <p> + "To-day!" exclaims the janitor. "At this hour!" + </p> + <p> + "What is the time?" asks the man of science. + </p> + <p> + "About eight o'clock," the janitor replies. + </p> + <p> + "It is late," comments M. Marmus. "Take me home, driver." + </p> + <p> + 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. + </p> + <p> + 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. + </p> + <p> + "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." + </p> + <p> + "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." + </p> + <p> + <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:60%"> + <img alt="26a.jpg (17K)" src="images/26a.jpg" width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <p> + <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="linkc7" id="linkc7"></a> + <br /><br /> + </p> + <h1> + VII + </h1> + <h2> + DESSERT + </h2> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <div class="figleft" style="width:20%;"> + <img width="100%" src="images/27a.jpg" alt="Illustrated A." /> + </div> + <p> + 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. + </p> + <p> + 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. + </p> + <p> + "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." + </p> + <p> + <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:60%"> + <img alt="28a.jpg (28K)" src="images/28a.jpg" width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <p> + <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> + </p> + <p> + "Say nothing to her, my child," exclaimed the professor, whose features + expressed a sort of childish fear. + </p> + <p> + The truly great man is always more or less a child. + </p> + <p> + <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:60%"> + <img alt="28b.jpg (4K)" src="images/28b.jpg" width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <p> + <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="linkc8" id="linkc8"></a> + <br /><br /> + </p> + <h1> + VIII + </h1> + <h2> + THIS SHOWS THAT THE WIFE OF <br />A MAN OF SCIENCE IS VERY UNHAPPY + </h2> + <p> + <br /> + </p> + <div class="figleft" style="width:20%;"> + <img width="100%" src="images/08a.jpg" alt="Illustrated A." /> + </div> + <p> + "Well, good-bye. Return in the cab, it is paid for," Madame Marmus was + saying when Madame Adolphe arrived at the door. + </p> + <p> + The cab had already turned the corner. Madame Adolphe, not having seen + Madame Marmus's escort, said to herself: + </p> + <p> + "Poor Madame! He must be her nephew." + </p> + <p> + 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. + </p> + <p> + "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." + </p> + <p> + "Madame," the servant replied, "Monsieur is very sick. You let him eat too + much." + </p> + <p> + <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:60%"> + <img alt="30a.jpg (25K)" src="images/30a.jpg" width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <p> + <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> + </p> + <p> + "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." + </p> + <p> + Madame Adolphe returns to the pavilion to propose an emetic, and scolds + the professor for not having returned with Madame Marmus. + </p> + <p> + "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?" + </p> + <p> + "At the Institute," he replied. + </p> + <p> + "At the Institute! Where did you take the cab?" she asked. + </p> + <p> + "In front of a bridge, I think," he replied. + </p> + <p> + <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:60%"> + <img alt="31a.jpg (24K)" src="images/31a.jpg" width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <p> + <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> + </p> + <p> + "Was it still daylight?" she asked. + </p> + <p> + "Almost," he said. + </p> + <p> + "Then you did not go to Madame Vernet's!" exclaimed Madame Adolphe. + </p> + <p> + "Why did you not come to Madame Vernet's?" asked his wife. + </p> + <p> + 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. + </p> + <p> + "My dear child, I do not know," said the professor in a repentant tone. + </p> + <p> + "Then you have not dined," said Madame Marmus, whose attitude remained + that of the purest innocence. + </p> + <p> + "With what could he have dined, Madame? He had two sous," said Madame + Adolphe, looking at Madame Marmus with an accusing air. + </p> + <p> + <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:60%"> + <img alt="32a.jpg (33K)" src="images/32a.jpg" width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <p> + <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> + </p> + <p> + "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." + </p> + <p> + "Oh, Monsieur, is it possible?" asked Madame Adolphe with an indignant + air. + </p> + <p> + "I have cornered Sinard!" exclaimed M. Marmus triumphantly. + </p> + <p> + "Oh, he would let himself die!" exclaimed Madame Adolphe. + </p> + <p> + "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." + </p> + <p> + 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— + </p> + <p> + <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:60%"> + <img alt="33a.jpg (43K)" src="images/33a.jpg" width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <p> + <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> + </p> + <p> + "Poor Madame," said the kind Madame Adolphe. "I pity you. He was really so + absent-minded as that!" + </p> + <p> + And Madame Adolphe forgot the strange avowal of her mistress. + </p> + <p> + <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> + </p> + <div class="fig" style="width:60%"> + <img alt="35a.jpg (18K)" src="images/35a.jpg" width="100%" /><br /> + </div> + <p> + <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> + </p> +<pre xml:space="preserve"> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of A Street Of Paris And Its Inhabitant +by Honore De Balzac + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A STREET OF PARIS *** + +***** This file should be named 8150-h.htm or 8150-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/8/1/5/8150/ + +Produced by Dagny, John Bickers and David Widger + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: A Street Of Paris And Its Inhabitant + +Author: Honore De Balzac + +Release Date: November 1, 2006 [EBook #8150] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A STREET OF PARIS *** + + + + +Produced by Dagny, John Bickers and David Widger + + + + + 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. + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of A Street Of Paris And Its Inhabitant +by Honore De Balzac + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A STREET OF PARIS *** + +***** This file should be named 8150.txt or 8150.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/8/1/5/8150/ + +Produced by Dagny, John Bickers and David Widger + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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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. + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of A Street Of Paris And Its Inhabitant +by Honore De Balzac + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A STREET OF PARIS *** + +This file should be named paris10.txt or paris10.zip +Corrected EDITIONS of our eBooks get a new NUMBER, paris11.txt +VERSIONS based on separate sources get new LETTER, paris10a.txt + +Produced by Dagny, John Bickers and David Widger + +Project Gutenberg eBooks are often created from several printed +editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the US +unless a copyright notice is included. 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Balzac was +never tired. He said that the men who were tired were those who +rested and tried to work afterwards.</p> + +<p>"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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>H. P. du B.</p> + + +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<center> +<img alt="01a.jpg (44K)" src="01a.jpg" height="431" width="503"> +</center> +<br> +<br> + +<a name="c1"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<h1>I</h1> +<h2>PHYSIOGNOMY OF THE STREET</h2> +</center> +<br> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<center> +<img alt="03a.jpg (29K)" src="03a.jpg" height="480" width="284"> +</center> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>If you went there, you would ask yourself, "Who can possibly +live here?"</p> + +<p>Who? Wait and see.</p> + +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> + +<a name="c2"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<h1>II</h1> +<h2>SILHOUETTE OF THE INHABITANT</h2> +</center> +<br> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<center> +<img alt="05a.jpg (23K)" src="05a.jpg" height="450" width="270"> +</center> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<center> +<img alt="06a.jpg (25K)" src="06a.jpg" height="382" width="259"> +</center> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<center> +<img alt="07a.jpg (20K)" src="07a.jpg" height="302" width="336"> +</center> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> + +<br> +<br> + +<a name="c3"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<h1>III</h1> +<h2>MADAME ADOLPHE</h2> +</center> +<br> + +<p>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:</p> + +<p>"Have you a handkerchief?"</p> + +<p>A woman stood on the step of the garden door and was watching +her master with solicitude.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>She was darning stockings.</p> + +<p>The man of science came back and said naively:</p> + +<p>"Yes, Madame Adolphe, I have my handkerchief."</p> + +<p>"Have you your spectacles?" she asked.</p> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<center> +<img alt="09a.jpg (22K)" src="09a.jpg" height="430" width="259"> +</center> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<p>The man of science felt the side pocket of his waistcoat.</p> + +<p>"I have them," he replied.</p> + +<p>"Show them to me," she said. "Often you have only the +case."</p> + +<p>The professor took the case out of his pocket and showed the +spectacles with a triumphant air.</p> + +<p>"You would do well to keep them on your nose," she said.</p> + +<p>M. de Saint-Leu put on his spectacles, after rubbing the +glasses with his handkerchief.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>"I was sure of it," said Madame Adolphe to herself. She picked +up the handkerchief and cried:</p> + +<p>"Monsieur! Monsieur!"</p> + +<p>"Well!" exclaimed the professor, made indignant by her +watchfulness.</p> + +<p>"I beg your pardon," he said, receiving the handkerchief.</p> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<center> +<img alt="10a.jpg (40K)" src="10a.jpg" height="575" width="384"> +</center> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<p>"Have you any money?" asked Madame Adolphe with maternal +solicitude.</p> + +<p>"I need none," he replied naively, explaining thus the lives +of all men of science.</p> + +<p>"It depends," Madame Adolphe said. "If you go by way of the +Pont des Arts you need one sou."</p> + +<p>"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."</p> + +<p>"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.</p> + +<p>"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."</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>"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."</p> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<center> +<img alt="12a.jpg (16K)" src="12a.jpg" height="237" width="354"> +</center> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> + + +<a name="c4"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<h1>IV</h1> +<h2>INCONVENIENCE OF QUAYS +<br>WHERE ARE BOOK STALLS</h2> +</center> +<br> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<center> +<img alt="14a.jpg (27K)" src="14a.jpg" height="452" width="308"> +</center> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>Two roads were open to him: the Pont Neuf and the Pont Royal. +Curiosity makes one lose more time in Paris than anywhere +else.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>Great is the number of ten-sous pieces spent in the four-sous +stalls!</p> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<center> +<img alt="16a.jpg (37K)" src="16a.jpg" height="387" width="506"> +</center> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<p>The professor saw a pamphlet by Vicq-d'Azyr, a complete +Charles Bonnet in the edition of Fauche Borel, and an essay on +Malus.</p> + +<p>"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."</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>"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."</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>"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?"</p> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<center> +<img alt="17a.jpg (25K)" src="17a.jpg" height="383" width="365"> +</center> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> + + +<a name="c5"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<h1>V</h1> +<h2>FIRST COURSE</h2> +</center> +<br> + +<p>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?</p> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<center> +<img alt="18a.jpg (15K)" src="18a.jpg" height="304" width="211"> +</center> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> + +<a name="c6"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<h1>VI</h1> +<h2>SECOND COURSE</h2> +</center> +<br> + + +<p>"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?</p> + +<p>"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—</p> + +<p>"Yes, he is a man of genius. I do justice to him in the face +of all the world."</p> + +<p>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.</p> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<center> +<img alt="20a.jpg (17K)" src="20a.jpg" height="385" width="226"> +</center> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<center> +<img alt="21a.jpg (34K)" src="21a.jpg" height="395" width="525"> +</center> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<p>When the driver asked, "Where?" Marmus replied quietly:</p> + +<p>"Home."</p> + +<p>"Where is your home, Monsieur?" asked the driver.</p> + +<p>"Number three," Marmus replied.</p> + +<p>"What street?" asked the driver.</p> + +<p>"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."</p> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<center> +<img alt="22a.jpg (38K)" src="22a.jpg" height="444" width="501"> +</center> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<p>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."</p> + +<p>"The Institute, Monsieur?" he asked.</p> + +<p>"Yes, my friend, the Institute," replied Marmus.</p> + +<p>"Well he wears the red ribbon," said the driver to himself. +"Perhaps he has something to do with the Institute."</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>The cab driver tells the janitor where he found his fare.</p> + +<p>"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."</p> + +<p>"He couldn't tell me his address," says the cab driver.</p> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<center> +<img alt="24a.jpg (47K)" src="24a.jpg" height="517" width="476"> +</center> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<p>"He lives in the Rue Duguay-Trouin, Number three," says the +janitor.</p> + +<p>"What a neighborhood!" exclaims the driver.</p> + +<p>"My friend," asks of the janitor the professor who had found +the door shut, "is there no meeting of the Academy to-day?"</p> + +<p>"To-day!" exclaims the janitor. "At this hour!"</p> + +<p>"What is the time?" asks the man of science.</p> + +<p>"About eight o'clock," the janitor replies.</p> + +<p>"It is late," comments M. Marmus. "Take me home, driver."</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>"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."</p> + +<p>"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."</p> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<center> +<img alt="26a.jpg (17K)" src="26a.jpg" height="375" width="245"> +</center> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> + +<a name="c7"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<h1>VII</h1> +<h2>DESSERT</h2> +</center> +<br> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>"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."</p> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<center> +<img alt="28a.jpg (28K)" src="28a.jpg" height="367" width="446"> +</center> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<p>"Say nothing to her, my child," exclaimed the professor, whose +features expressed a sort of childish fear.</p> + +<p>The truly great man is always more or less a child.</p> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<center> +<img alt="28b.jpg (4K)" src="28b.jpg" height="101" width="221"> +</center> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> + +<a name="c8"></a> +<br><br> +<center> +<h1>VIII</h1> +<h2>THIS SHOWS THAT THE WIFE OF +<br>A MAN OF SCIENCE IS VERY UNHAPPY</h2> +</center> +<br> + +<p>"Well, good-bye. Return in the cab, it is paid for," Madame +Marmus was saying when Madame Adolphe arrived at the door.</p> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<center> +<img alt="30a.jpg (25K)" src="30a.jpg" height="484" width="287"> +</center> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<p>The cab had already turned the corner. Madame Adolphe, not +having seen Madame Marmus's escort, said to herself:</p> + +<p>"Poor Madame! He must be her nephew."</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>"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."</p> + +<p>"Madame," the servant replied, "Monsieur is very sick. You let +him eat too much."</p> + +<p>"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."</p> + +<p>Madame Adolphe returns to the pavilion to propose an emetic, +and scolds the professor for not having returned with Madame +Marmus.</p> + +<p>"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?"</p> + +<p>"At the Institute," he replied.</p> + +<p>"At the Institute! Where did you take the cab?" she asked.</p> + +<p>"In front of a bridge, I think," he replied.</p> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<center> +<img alt="31a.jpg (24K)" src="31a.jpg" height="349" width="339"> +</center> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<p>"Was it still daylight?" she asked.</p> + +<p>"Almost," he said.</p> + +<p>"Then you did not go to Madame Vernet's!" exclaimed Madame +Adolphe.</p> + +<p>"Why did you not come to Madame Vernet's?" asked his wife.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>"My dear child, I do not know," said the professor in a +repentant tone.</p> + +<p>"Then you have not dined," said Madame Marmus, whose attitude +remained that of the purest innocence.</p> + +<p>"With what could he have dined, Madame? He had two sous," said +Madame Adolphe, looking at Madame Marmus with an accusing +air.</p> + +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<center> +<img alt="32a.jpg (33K)" src="32a.jpg" height="410" width="505"> +</center> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> + +<p>"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."</p> + +<p>"Oh, Monsieur, is it possible?" asked Madame Adolphe with an +indignant air.</p> + +<p>"I have cornered Sinard!" exclaimed M. Marmus +triumphantly.</p> + +<p>"Oh, he would let himself die!" exclaimed Madame Adolphe.</p> + +<p>"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."</p> + +<p>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—</p> + + +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<center> +<img alt="33a.jpg (43K)" src="33a.jpg" height="519" width="544"> +</center> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> + +<p>"Poor Madame," said the kind Madame Adolphe. "I pity you. He +was really so absent-minded as that!"</p> + +<p>And Madame Adolphe forgot the strange avowal of her +mistress.</p> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<center> +<img alt="35a.jpg (18K)" src="35a.jpg" height="309" width="349"> +</center> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<center> +<h3>Illuminated Capitals from the beginning of each chapter.</h3> + + +<img alt="08a.jpg (6K)" src="08a.jpg" height="175" width="172"> +<img alt="13a.jpg (4K)" src="13a.jpg" height="128" width="136"> +<img alt="19a.jpg (8K)" src="19a.jpg" height="178" width="183"> + +<br> + +<img alt="27a.jpg (5K)" src="27a.jpg" height="161" width="150"> +<img alt="04a.jpg (7K)" src="04a.jpg" height="189" width="162"> +<img alt="29a.jpg (5K)" src="29a.jpg" height="151" width="146"> + +</center> + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of A Street Of Paris And Its Inhabitant +by Honore De Balzac + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A STREET OF PARIS *** + +This file should be named paris10h.htm or paris10h.zip +Corrected EDITIONS of our eBooks get a new NUMBER, paris11h.htm +VERSIONS based on separate sources get new LETTER, paris10ah.htm + +Produced by Dagny, John Bickers and David Widger + +Project Gutenberg eBooks are often created from several printed +editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the US +unless a copyright notice is included. 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