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It was in this spirit that, during the last months of 1835, he acquired the Chronique de Paris, of which he became the director.
Balzac starts the Chronique de Paris Balzac and Theophile Gautier Lawsuit with the Revue de Paris Failure of the Chronique Strain and exhaustion Balzac travels in Italy Madame Marbouty Return to Paris Death of Madame de Berny Balzac's grief and family anxieties He is imprisoned for refusal to serve in Garde Nationale Werdet's failure Balzac's desperate pecuniary position and prodigies of work Close of the disastrous year 1836.
An item like the following from the accounts of 1448-49 whets the reader's curiosity: "To Jehan Lanternier, barber and varlet of the chamber, for delivering to a certain person for certain causes and for secret matters of which Monseigneur does not wish further declaration to be made, 53 pounds 17 sous." Why mourning was used on this joyful occasion does not appear. Remy, Chronique, ii., 284. St.
The question is rather how long the exclusively anonymous periodicals will resist the innovation. Personally I have attached less stern importance to signature as an unvarying rule than did my predecessor; though, even he was compelled by obvious considerations of convenience to make his chronique of current affairs anonymous.
The accounts which Venetian writers give of Republican society in the eighteenth century form a chronique scandaleuse which need not be minutely copied here.
In regard to the chronique scandaleuse, there is no occasion for any report, as the Session seems a maiden one. I take it for granted Selwyn writes to you principally about Lord Morpeth, as I perceive he is in general uppermost in his thoughts, and the subject on which he converses le plus volontiers avec moi. Le seul bien qui nous rests, &c. We had a debate on Monday, when Mr.
The king was at first unusually cheerful and humorous, and he commanded me to ride near him, and tell him something from the chronique scandaleuse of our court. He laughed at my spiteful remarks, and the worse I calumniated, the merrier was the king. Finally, we halted; the king had talked and laughed so much that he had at last become hungry.
I pray you, mademoiselle, to go into the saloon with Pollnitz; he can entertain you with the Chronique Scandaleuse of our most virtuous court, while I am writing. And now," said she, when she found herself alone, "may God give me power to reach the heart of the duke, and win him to my purpose!" With a firm hand she wrote: "Because you are happy, duke, you will have pity for the wretched.
However, between the fire in the Rue du Pot-de-Fer, Werdet's delinquencies, the failure of the Chronique, and the sums paid back to publishers who had advanced money on arrangements Balzac cancelled to fulfil this new agreement, hardly anything was left; and in 1837 he owed 162,000 francs.
Happily, however, it is not our duty to enter on the chronique scandaleuse of plots and counterplots, as little tolerable to contemplate as the factions of the court of France in the worst periods of its history. We can only ask what possible part a philosopher could play at such a court?
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