estorades

Updated: July 9, 2026

For there was no mistaking it the sort of emotion with which Monsieur Dorlange repelled the charge was the cry of a conscience at peace with itself, and which knows itself able to confound a calumny. Paris, May, 1839. On my return this evening from the Estorades, on whom I had paid my parting call, I found your letter, my dear friend, in which you announce your coming arrival.

Honoré de Balzac - The Deputy of Arcis