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The Village Rector

Honoré de Balzac

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .tered the sum stolen on their records as, in all probability, a thousand gold coins to each pot. But were these coins forty-eight or forty, twenty-four or twenty francs in value? All expectant heirs in Limoges sympathized with the des Vanneaulx. The Limousin imagination was greatly stirred by the spectacle of the broken pots. As for old Pingret, who often sold vegetables himself in the market, lived on bread and onions, never spent more than three hundred francs a year, obliged and disobliged no one, and had never done one atom of good in the suburb of Saint-Etienne where he lived, his death did not excite the slightest regret. Poor Jeanne Malassis' heroism, which the old miser, had she saved him, would certainly not have rewarded, was thought rash; the number of souls who admired it was small in comparison with those who said: "For my part, I should have stayed in my bed."

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- Narendra - Jul 24, 2013

Nature passionn��e d��s sa plus tendre jeunesse, V��ronique Graslin expie dans le village limousin de Mont��gnac son pass�� de femme adult��re et coupable : elle a laiss�� condamner �� mort son amant, le jeune Tascheron, sans r��v��ler �� la Justice sa participation au crime qu'il avait commis. Sous

4.00
- Lucy - Jan 25, 2021

It's not about the parson at all, really, it's about the effects of a bad conscience. The plot was predictable Balzac tosh, but what I really loved was the backgrounds. Was there anything Balzac was not interested in? Politics and finance come into most of his work, but this was full of agriculture,

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- Felice - Sep 14, 2016

Balzac's book is misnamed. It should be titled The Life of Veronique or something similar. There's a complex history to the book: published in one part in 1837, and then in another part shortly after that seemed totally unconnected, and then those two were published together with a third one which e

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- Jim - Apr 24, 2011

The Village Rector is by no means Balzac's best novel, but it has some beauties of its own -- but only if you can tolerate a life of Christian piety stretched over the period of a lifetime. Its main character, Veronique de Graslin has committed some terrible sin of which we do not learn until the ve

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