patz

Updated: May 9, 2025

Returning to Paris in November, 1837, the countess entered society for the first time as a married woman during the winter which had just ended, and she then became aware of the existence, half-suppressed and wholly dumb but very useful, of a species of factotum who was personally invisible, named Paz, spelt thus, but pronounced "Patz."

Honoré de Balzac - Paz