Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau
Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau
by Honore de Balzac
Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
PART I
CESAR AT HIS APOGEE
I
During winter nights noise never ceases in the Rue Saint-Honore except for a short interval. Kitchen-gardeners carrying their produce to market continue the stir of carriages returning from theatres and balls. Near the middle of this sustained pause in the grand symphony of Parisian uproar, which occurs about one o'clock in the morning, ...