An Episode Under the Terror

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Title: An Episode Under the Terror

Author: Honore de Balzac

Release Date: September 1, 2004 [EBook #1456]

Language: English

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AN EPISODE UNDER THE TERROR

BY

HONORE DE BALZAC



Translated By
Clara Bell and others



DEDICATION

To Monsieur Guyonnet-Merville.

Is it not a necessity to explain to a public curious to know
everything, how I came to be sufficiently learned in the law to
carry on the business of my little world? And in so doing, am I
not bound to put on record the memory of the amiable and
intelligent man who, meeting the Scribe (another clerk-amateur) at
a ball, said, "Just give the office a turn; there is work for you
there, I assure you"? But do you need this public testimony to
feel assured of the affection of the writer?

DE BALZAC.



AN EPISODE UNDER THE TERROR



On the 22nd of January, 1793, towards eight o'clock in the evening, an
old lady came down the steep street that comes to an end opposite the
Church of Saint Laurent in the Faubourg Saint Martin. It had snowed so
heavily all day long that the lady's footsteps were scarcely audible;
the streets were deserted, and a feeling of dread, not unnatural amid
the silence, was further increased by the whole extent of the Terror
beneath which France was

Anonymous may refer to: Anonymus, the Latin spelling, may refer to:

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