A Man of Business
A Man of Business
by Honore de Balzac
Translated by Clara Bell and others
DEDICATION
To Monsieur le Baron James de Rothschild, Banker and Austrian Consul-General at Paris.
A MAN OF BUSINESS
The word /lorette/ is a euphemism invented to describe the status of a personage, or a personage of a status, of which it is awkward to speak; the French Academie, in its modesty, having omitted to supply a definition out of regard for the age of its forty members ...