gall-making

Updated: May 24, 2025

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?" It was the hour at which they went to the dinner table in the house of Marmus's sister-in-law.

Honoré de Balzac - A Street of Paris and Its Inhabitant