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Half-way down the Rue Saint-Denis, almost at the corner of the Rue du Petit-Lion, there stood formerly one of those delightful houses which enable historians to reconstruct old Paris by analogy. The threatening walls of this tumbledown abode seemed to have been decorated with hieroglyphics. For what other name could the passer-by give to the Xs and Vs which the horizontal or diagonal timbers traced on the front, outlined by little parallel cracks in the plaster? It was evident that every beam quivered in its mortices at the passing of the lightest vehicle. This venerable structure was crowned by a triangular roof of which no example will, ere long, be seen in Paris. This covering, warped by the extremes of the Paris climate, projected three feet over the roadway, as much to protect the threshold from the rainfall as to shelter the wall of a loft and its sill-less dormer-window. This upper story was built of planks, overlapping each other like slates, in order, no doubt, not to overweight the frail house. Inhoud:Taal: Engels;Bindwijze: Paperback;Verschijningsdatum: januari 2020;Aantal pagina's: 46 pagina's;Illustraties: Nee; Betrokkenen:Auteur: Honoré de Balzac;Uitgever: Independently Published; EAN: Overige kenmerken:Extra groot lettertype: Nee;Thema Subject Code: FBC; Engels | Paperback | 9798604904428 | 46 pagina'S.

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At the Sign of the Cat and Racket: La Maison du chat-qui-pelote (At the Sign of the Cat and Racket) is a novel by Honor&eacute de Balzac. It is the opening work in the Sc&egrave nes de la vie priv&eacute e (Scenes of Private Life), which comprises the first volume of Balzac&#39 s La Com&eacute die humaine. The idea for the story came from the haberdashery business run by the Sallambiers on the maternal side of Balzac&#39 s family. The artist Th&eacute odore de Sommervieux falls in love with Augustine Guillaume, the daughter of a conservative cloth merchant, whose house of business on the Rue Saint-Denis in Paris is known by sign of the Cat and Racket. Th&eacute odore, a winner of the Prix de Rome and a knight of the Legion of Honor, is famous for his interiors and chiaroscuro effects in imitation of the Dutch School. He makes an excellent reproduction of the interior of the Cat and Racket, which is exhibited at the Salon alongside a strikingly modern portrait of Augustine. The affair blossoms with the help of Madame Guillaume&#39 s younger cousin Madame Roguin, who is already acquainted with Th&eacute odore. The lovers become engaged, somewhat against the best wishes of Augustine&#39 s parents, who had originally intended her to marry Monsieur Guillaume&#39 s clerk Joseph Lebas. In 1808 Augustine marries Th&eacute odore at the local church of Saint-Leu on the same day her elder sister Virginie marries Lebas. The marriage is not a happy one. Augustine adores Sommervieux but is incapable of understanding him as an artist. Although she is more refined than her parents, her education and social standing leave her too far below the level of her husband to allow a meeting of minds to take place. Th&eacute odore&#39 s passion for her cools and she is treated with disdain by his fellow artists. Th&eacute odore instead finds a kindred soul in the Duchesse de Carigliano, to whom he gives the famous portrait of Augustine and to whom he becomes hopelessly attached, neglecting his rooms on the Rue des Trois-Fr&egrave res (now a part of the Rue Taitbout). Realizing after three years of unhappiness that her marriage is falling apart and having been informed by a malicious gossip of Th&eacute odore&#39 s attachment to the duchess, Augustine visits Madame de Carigliano not to ask her to give her back her husband&#39 s heart but to learn the arts by which it has been captured. The duchess warns her against trying to conquer a man&#39 s heart through love, which will only allow the husband to tyrannize over the wife instead a woman must use all the arts of coquetry that nature puts at her disposal. Augustine is shocked to learn that Madame de Carigliano sees marriage as a form of warfare. The duchess then returns to Augustine her own portrait, telling her that if she cannot conquer her husband with this weapon, she is not a woman. Read this complete famous novel for further interesting story.... &nbsp, Englisch, Ebook.

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Independently published, Taschenbuch, Publiziert: 2020-01-31T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book.