Heather

“The Oratorian boarding school in Vendôme, which Balzac was sent to at a young age.  It was a gruelling and miserable place to live, with severe monastic rules.”
― Honoré de Balzac, Works of Honore de Balzac

“Choosing Luther and Calvin instead of the spiritual reformers who were their contemporaries, Protestant Europe got the kind of theology it liked. But it also got, along with other unanticipated by-products, the Thirty Years’ War, capitalism and the first rudiments of modern Germany. “If”
― Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy: An Interpretation of the Great Mystics, East and West

“This short novel is the opening work of the Scènes de la vie privée, the first volume of La Comédie humaine.  The novella was originally entitled Gloire et Malheur (Glory and Misfortune) when it was written in 1829.  Published by Mame-Delaunay in the following year, it was followed by four revised editions. The final edition was published by Furne in 1842, appearing under the title of La Maison du chat-qui-pelote.”
― Honoré de Balzac, Works of Honore de Balzac

“Monsieur Guillaume naturally thought that this sinister personage had an eye to the till of the Cat and Racket. After quietly observing the mute duel which was going on between his master and the stranger, the eldest of the apprentices, having seen that the young man was stealthily watching the windows of the third floor, ventured to place himself on the stone flag where Monsieur Guillaume was standing. He took two steps out into the street, raised his head, and fancied that he caught sight of Mademoiselle Augustine Guillaume in hasty retreat”
― Honoré de Balzac, Works of Honore de Balzac