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The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac

The Deputy of Arcis

Author
Honore de Balzac
Categories
French literature
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Excerpt

Discretion, required in a history of contemporaneous manners and morals, dictates this precautionary word.  It is rather an ingenious contrivance to make the description of one town the frame for events which happened in another; and several times already in the course of the Comedy of Human Life, this means has been employed in spite of its disadvantages, which consist chiefly in making the frame of as much importance as the canvas.


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