Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
by Honore de Balzac
Translated by James Waring
DEDICATION
To His Highness Prince Alfonso Serafino di Porcia.
Allow me to place your name at the beginning of an essentially Parisian work, thought out in your house during these latter days. Is it not natural that I should offer you the flowers of rhetoric that blossomed in your garden, watered with the regrets I suffered from home-sickness, which you soothed, as I wandered under ...