buffault

Updated: May 5, 2025

This Croizeau used to hand over his halfpence with a flourish and a 'There, fair lady! "Mme. Ida Bonamy the aunt was not long in finding out through a servant that Croizeau, by popular report of the neighborhood of the Rue de Buffault, where he lived, was a man of exceeding stinginess, possessed of forty thousand francs per annum.

Honoré de Balzac - A Man of Business