A Double Family The Peace Of The Household A Study Of Woman Another Study Of Woman The Pretended Mistress

Author : Honoré de Balzac
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781440098970
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (989 download)

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Download or read book A Double Family; The Peace of the Household; A Study of Woman; Another Study of Woman; The Pretended Mistress (Classic Reprint) written by Honoré de Balzac and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-07-23 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Double Family; The Peace of the Household; A Study of Woman; Another Study of Woman; The Pretended Mistress The Rue du tourniquet-saint-jean, not so long ago one of the most tortuous and most obscure of the streets of the old quarter which surrounds the hotel de Ville, wandered along by the little gardens of the prefecture of Paris and came out in the Rue du Martroi, exactly at the angle of an old wall, now demolished. Here stood the turnstile to which this street was indebted for its name, and which was not destroyed till 1823, at the time that the city of Paris erected, on the site of a little garden of the hotel de Ville, a ball room for the fete given to the Duc d'angouleme on his return from Spain. The widest part of the Rue du Tourniquet was at its opening into the Rue de la Tixeranderie, where it was only about five feet wide. Thus, in rainy weather, the floods of blackish waters rose promptly to bathe the feet of the old houses on each side of this street, bringing with them the refuse deposited by each household in the corners. As the scav engers' carts were not able to pass through it, the inhabitants depended upon the storms to clean their always muddy street; and how could it be clean? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.