Madame Firmiani

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Madame Firmiani is by Honoré de Balzac, "Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley". The dedication reads "To my dear Alexandre de Berny. His old friend, De Balzac." The writer says "The following is a true history, on which you may safely spend the treasures of your sensibility, if you have any."

Asked "Do you know Madame Firmiani?", an individual of the species Practical gives an inventory: "Fine house in the rue du Bac, salons handsomely furnished, good pictures, one hundred thousand francs a year, husband formerly receiver-general of the department of Montenotte." Monsieur de Bourbonne perceives that "whatever the actual truth might be, the relation between Madame Firmiani and Octave covered some mystery." A character says "I entered their house the accomplice in a crime; I left it an honest man, who had purged his father’s memory."

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Honoré de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) was a French novelist whose vast Human Comedy, a connected series of novels and stories, is a monument of literary realism and one of the great achievements of world literature.