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Girardin's bitter resentment is excusable, when we remember that it was in September, 1844, nearly three years before, that Balzac had received 9,000 francs in advance for "Les Paysans."
Henriette Borel's reception into a religious house Comte Georges Mniszech "Les Paysans" started in La Presse Madame Hanska's unreasonableness hinders Balzac's work He travels with her and her daughter, and they return with him to Passy Comtesse Anna engaged to Comte Georges Mniszech Balzac takes Madame Hanska and her daughter to Brussels He meets Madame Hanska at Baden-Baden Leaves Paris again, meets Wierzchownia party at Naples Buys bric-a-brac for future home Work neglected Dispute with Emile de Girardin Balzac's unhappiness and suspense He goes to Rome Comes back better in health and spirits "La Cousine Bette" and "Le Cousin Pons" Balzac goes to Wiesbaden Marriage of Comtesse Anna and Comte Georges Mniszech Balzac and Madame Hanska secretly engaged Parisian gossip.
Where is your 'jeune heros, 'l'homme du peuple? I do not see him. Does he wear clouted shoes and woollen stockings? Has he a broad face and turned-up nose, like your 'paysans Anglais'?" "Judge for yourself, my lady he stands at your elbow. Mr. Halifax, let me present you to Lady Caroline Brithwood."
I have only seen Malatesta's dialogue Between Peasants in a French translation: Entre Paysans, Traduit de l'Italien, 6th ed., Paris, 1892. Individualist and Communist Anarchism Arthur Mülberger Theodor Hertzka's Freeland Eugen Dühring's "Anticratism" Moritz von Egidy's "United Christendom" John Henry Mackay Nietzsche and Anarchism Johann Most Auberon Herbert's "Voluntary State" R. B. Tucker.
This necessity was an additional incentive to action, and Balzac's letters to Madame Hanska about this time, contain several indications of his anxiety about "Les Paysans." On June 9th he speaks of his desire to bring it to a close; and on the 15th he writes that he must certainly finish it at once, to avoid the lawsuit with which he has been for so long threatened by La Presse.
"I can only write you this word, and it is full of sadness, for I must work and try to forget you for several days, to belong in the future more thoroughly and surely to you. It is noon; I start again at 'Les Paysans' for the tenth time, and all the muscles in my face work like those of an animal; Nature has had enough of work she kicks over the traces. Ah! why have I debts?
Let us try something less difficult, and yet something where we may still have her in this her beloved world of "simplicity, and sky, and fields and trees, and peasant life, peasant life looked at, by preference, on its good and sound side." Voyez donc la simplicité, vous autres, voyez le ciel et les champs, et les arbres, et les paysans, surtout dans ce qu'ils ont de bon et de vrai.
"For my part, my resolution on this matter is taken, and firmly taken, and if I had not a remainder of the account to work out, I would certainly not publish 'Les Paysans, as I have not received the last line. Balzac's answer to this missive is lost.
Later on, in March, 1846, Girardin despatched another message to complain of the delay in continuing "Les Paysans," and in this he remarked with bitter emphasis that as La Presse paid so highly for what was published in her pages, she had at least the right of objecting to being treated lightly.
Balzac replied on March 16th, 1846, that he was the one who ought to bear malice, as Dujarier had upset his arrangements by interrupting the publication of "Les Paysans" to substitute "La Reine Margot," by Dumas, and that now his brain required rest, and that he was starting that very day for a month's holiday in Rome.
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