Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 6, 2025
After an attempt made by mutual friends to settle the matter amicably, Buloz entered an action against Balzac to compel him to continue the publication of the Lily in the Valley in the Revue de Paris. Three parts had been given. It was the end which the Review demanded, and ten thousand francs damages for the delay.
Balzac, furious at this insult, paid Buloz 300 francs, to defray the expenses already incurred for the printing of "Seraphita," and took back his work. Buloz's receipt for this money is dated November 21st, 1835, two days before the appearance of the first number of the "Lys dans la Vallee" in Paris, so storms were gathering on all sides.
The first number of this appeared in the Revue de Paris, on November 22, 1835; but in the meantime Balzac's uncorrected proofs had been sold by Buloz to MM. Bellizard and Dufour, proprietors of the Revue Etrangere de St. Petersbourg.
"Well," said I to Henry Murger, after we were once more seated in our carriage, "are you pleased with Monsieur Buloz?" "Yes and no. The most difficult step is taken. He allows me to contribute my masterpieces to the 'Revue des Deux Mondes, and I shall never forget the immense service you have done me. Although you and I do not serve the same literary gods, I am henceforward yours to the death!
Balzac, after this, refused to receive him on friendly terms; but a meeting was arranged at the house of Jules Sandeau, at which Balzac and the Comte de Belloy met Buloz and Bonnaire. Sandeau and Emile Regnault, who were friends of both the contending parties, were also present; and they, after this conference, became for a time exclusively Balzac's friends, as he remarks significantly.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking