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Adding a working link to Balzac’s hair-raising essay “The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee.”
Well, or not
A Balzac character writes about life as a mother.
Balzac: Orlando in a flat
“‘Orlando furioso is all very well in a poem.’”
Balzac: courtesans and grammar
Thanks to Valérie Marneffe, Célestin Crevel never makes mistakes in grammar.
Hard-boiled Balzac
For a moment, I could have been reading Raymond Chandler.
Balzac: books and flowers
As necessary as bread.
Balzac: money
And stupidity.
A criminal exposed
Balzac’s Vautrin.
Used-book-store score
Stefan Zweig’s Balzac bio, just $3.25.
Balzac, speculating
Another scheme.
How do you say “crazy, harebrained scheme” in French?
Balzac plans a pineapple plantation.
Coffee-and
Balzac’s writing equipment: special coffee, special paper, special pens.
Quadrille revival
From Honoré de Balzac.
Orgy-related
From Honoré de Balzac’s story “Sarrasine.”
“Easily five foot eight or nine”
From Honoré de Balzac’s story “Another Study of Womankind.”