Chapter

 1 I   |  provinces. If~a man came in from L'Houmeau with an order for
 2 I   | solicitors and men~of business in L'Houmeau were Liberals to
 3 I   |         shop in~the Grand' Rue de L'Houmeau, the principal suburb
 4 I   |           woman much respected in L'Houmeau, and earned~fifteen
 5 I   |        fragment of an epic called~L'Aveugle and two or three
 6 II  |            II~Lucien went down to L'Houmeau along the broad
 7 II  |      daily by the Palet Gate into L'Houmeau.~ ~Under the trees
 8 II  |           time past the suburb of L'Houmeau~had sprung up, a
 9 II  |   buildings.~ ~So the Faubourg of L'Houmeau grew into a busy
10 II  |     temporal of Angouleme; though~L'Houmeau, with all its business
11 II  |         held~Angouleme aloof from L'Houmeau. The merchant classes
12 II  |          quarrel. "He is a man~of L'Houmeau!" a shopkeeper of
13 II  |    distance~between Angouleme and L'Houmeau, already more strongly
14 II  |       part of France. "The man of~L'Houmeau" became little better
15 II  |      possible way.~ ~So "a man of L'Houmeau," a druggist's son,
16 III |       Bargeton. The inhabitant of L'Houmeau beheld the grandeur~
17 III |           future had been born in L'Houmeau! The headmaster
18 III |   intoxicated the young poet from L'Houmeau.~For Lucien those
19 III |         first, as became a man of L'Houmeau; but~ ~before very
20 III |           of the Chateaubriand of L'Houmeau," as he put it.
21 III |          like this little~poet of L'Houmeau; but one thing they
22 III |           back into the depths of L'Houmeau? Before he set that
23 III |       Lucien.~ ~Down once more in L'Houmeau he wished that he
24 III |          the Palet Gate as~far as L'Houmeau, but at the sight
25 IV  |          of us say~more or less, "L'Etat, c'est moi!" with Louis
26 IV  |       countenance.~ ~"You live in L'Houmeau," said M. de Bargeton, "
27 V   |           but he followed it with L'Aveugle, which proved too
28 V   |        himself as he went down to~L'Houmeau by the steps of
29 V   |           and~they walked through L'Houmeau together, he could
30 V   |         silent as we came through L'Houmeau. Do you know, I
31 V   |           He~ought not to live in L'Houmeau; you ought not to
32 VI  |         Langlee (where Leorier de l'Isle~endeavored in 1776
33 VI  |        sent the two readers to M. l'Abbe Grozier, Librarian
34 VI  |       came upon the paved road of L'Houmeau, the ambitious~poet
35 VI  |          Chardon, the druggist in~L'Houmeau."~ ~"You are going
36 VI  |      going to marry a girl out of L'Houmeau! YOU! a burgess
37 VI  |        are marrying a girl out of L'Houmeau, it must~be because
38 VI  |        you marry this girl out of L'Houmeau, I shall square
39 VI  |          a daughter-in-law out~of L'Houmeau without a penny
40 VI  |           fit for the girl out of L'Houmeau~to sleep in! What
41 VI  |       young Chardon" had lived in L'Houmeau; he was not even
42 VI  |         he was not even a "man~of L'Houmeau"; he lived in the
43 VIII|         the news to his sister in L'Houmeau and to take~counsel