Chapter
1 Dedication| sincere admirer and friend,~DE BALZAC.~ ~ ~
2 I | was struck. M. le~Comte de Maucombe, disguised in a
3 I | oath succeeded the Comte de Maucombe as soon as the
4 I | natural to the bear that M. de~Chateaubriand remarked it
5 I | the angle made by the Rue de Beaulieu and the Place du
6 I | s shop in~the Grand' Rue de L'Houmeau, the principal
7 I | poet can read, first Andre de Chenier's Idyll~Neerc, then
8 I | Iambes.~ ~"So that is Andre de Chenier!" Lucien exclaimed
9 I | returned the author. "Mme. de Bargeton~sent me here."~ ~
10 I | the interest which Mme. de Bargeton took in him. David~
11 I | are you in love with Mme. de Bargeton?"~ ~"Passionately."~ ~"
12 I | will never set foot in Mme. de Bargeton's house~again."~ ~
13 II | along the broad Promenade de Beaulieu,~the Rue du Minage,
14 II | you may be sure that Mme. de Bargeton's house lay on
15 II | characters in the story--Mme. de Bargeton.~ ~The old city
16 II | druggist's son, in Mme. de Bargeton's house~was nothing
17 II | the blame among them.~Mme. de Bargeton loved art and letters,
18 II | decided Lucien's career.~ ~M. de Bargeton was the great-grandson
19 II | bearing the name of Mirault de Bargeton, became an officer
20 II | and was called~simply M. de Bargeton. This M. de Bargeton,
21 II | M. de Bargeton. This M. de Bargeton, the alderman's
22 II | likewise, the grandson of M. de~Bargeton the Waster came
23 II | Mlle.~Marie-Louise-Anais de Negrepelisse, the daughter
24 II | Espard family. As for M. de~Negrepelisse, the younger
25 II | country~had inspired Mme. de Bargeton with a taste for
26 II | Italian and German; so Mlle. de Negrepelise~received instruction
27 II | of her attainments, Mlle. de Negrepelisse conceived an
28 II | compel self-repression, Mlle. de~Negrepelisse's bold ideas
29 II | only in youth.~ ~As for M. de Negrepelisse, he would have
30 II | hesitated for a moment.~ ~M. de Negrepelisse maintained
31 II | of sons-in-law.~ ~To M. de Negrepelisse pondering over
32 II | requirements in his mind. M. de Bargeton~seemed to be the
33 II | to this description. M. de~Bargeton, aged forty, considerably
34 II | In the bluntest manner M. de Negrepelisse~pointed out
35 II | prospect of such liberty.~M. de Bargeton was of the opinion
36 II | that in no long while M. de Negrepelisse~would leave
37 II | father-in-law.~ ~By this time Mme. de Bargeton was thirty-six
38 II | more startling since M. de~Bargeton looked like a man
39 II | excepted; for M. and~Mme. de Bargeton were obliged to
40 II | until such time as~Mme. de Bargeton's inheritance should
41 II | to be attentive to old M. de~Negrepelisse (who kept them
42 II | their lives.~ ~Here was Mme. de Bargeton, for instance,
43 II | first eighteen years of Mme. de Bargeton's married~life
44 II | been crowned kings. Mme. de~Bargeton went to a ridotto
45 II | the~only record of Mme. de Bargeton's young beauty,
46 II | the great essayists, M. de Bonald and M. de Maistre~(
47 II | essayists, M. de Bonald and M. de Maistre~(those two eagles
48 II | adore them.~ ~This was Mme. de Bargeton's past life, a
49 II | some interest into Mme. de~Bargeton's monotonous life.
50 II | excise fell~vacant, and M. de Barante appointed a man
51 III | III~M. de Chatelet--he began life
52 III | balked of his ambassade de famille as he called it,
53 III | despair to Egypt with General de Montriveau. A strange chapter
54 III | Council, who put him in M. de Barante's department~until
55 III | Sundays, he saw that Mme. de. Bargeton was the person
56 III | came out after mass, Mme. de Bargeton complimented him,
57 III | the sanctuary, for Mme. de Bargeton's salon was a kind
58 III | never received at~all; Mme. de Bargeton would go to concerts
59 III | Angouleme regarded~the Hotel de Bargeton. The inhabitant
60 III | of the Angoumoisin Hotel de~Rambouillet, shining at
61 III | for his designs on Mme. de~Bargeton, Chatelet could
62 III | see the intruder in Mme. de Bargeton's house, but not
63 III | writers meant. Not so Mme. de Bargeton; she waxed~enthusiastic
64 III | Bourbon~Lilies; she loved M. de Chateaubriand for calling
65 III | revile his benefactors. Mme. de Bargeton in her~little circle
66 III | like a war whoop--~Mme. de Bargeton amid these grotesque
67 III | appearance in the Hotel de Bargeton.~ ~Poor helots
68 III | great gates of the~Hotel de Bargeton would shortly open
69 III | evening in the~Promenade de Beaulieu, had looked up
70 III | watched him pass down~the Rue de Beaulieu to the Promenade,
71 III | to them. Lucien in Mme. de Bargeton's house!--for Eve
72 III | mattressed cushions, sat Mme.~de Bargeton; the poet beheld
73 III | distinguished, he thought. For~Mme. de Bargeton, she was impressed
74 III | of a great~lady.~ ~Mme. de Bargeton, following a new
75 III | somewhat too thin, Mme. de~Bargeton amiably pointed
76 III | else in the room.~ ~Mme. de Bargeton's words intoxicated
77 III | meant to return; and Mme. de Bargeton did not ask for
78 III | because he had~found Mme. de Bargeton to his taste; she
79 III | anguish. For two months Mme. de~Bargeton was for him a benefactress
80 III | confidences came next. Mme. de Bargeton began to address~
81 III | Lucien came in, he found Mme. de Bargeton looking at~a portrait,
82 III | meant to have no more of M. de Cante-Croix, and gave~Louise
83 III | ask Lucien to dine with M. de Bargeton as a~third. But
84 III | passed muster as a joke. Mme. de Chandour was the first to
85 III | the first to hurry to~Mme. de Bargeton.~ ~"Nais, dear,"
86 III | that, my dear?" asked Mme. de Bargeton~with her most regal
87 III | support your children?"~ ~Mme. de Bargeton's presence of mind
88 III | of the~forbidden.~ ~Mme. de Bargeton's rooms were crowded
89 III | Amelie, otherwise Mme. de Chandour,~harkening to "
90 III | on Wednesdays. Now Mme. de Bargeton's salon was~open
91 III | sacred grove," said Alexandre de Brebian, which was witticism~
92 III | was attacked. When Mme.~de Bargeton called him "M.
93 III | hopes as a sacrifice at Mme. de~Bargeton's feet; but with
94 III | great~man in Angoumois. Mme. de Bargeton was praised on
95 III | matter, would authorize. Mme. de Bargeton undertook to~procure
96 III | of~six-and-twenty; Mme. de Bargeton's eyes grew soft;
97 III | course of that evening, Mme. de Bargeton's wit made havoc
98 III | kind meant ruin for Mme. de Bargeton. Once~accused and
99 III | expense; he could see Mme. de Bargeton's repressed~smile;
100 III | to give his arm to Mme. de Bargeton among the dandies
101 III | fortune.~ ~"I love Mme. de Bargeton; perhaps in a few
102 III | corner near~my desk."~ ~Mme. de Bargeton's letter lying
103 IV | bound to take?~ ~"LOUISE DE NEGREPELISSE."~ ~Lucien
104 IV | David should go to Mme. de~Bargeton's house! David
105 IV | lives over a shop in the Rue de Beaulieu at the corner of
106 IV | can call yourself Lucien de Rubempre; I am and always~
107 IV | fostering in Lucien; and Mme. de Bargeton was~doing her best
108 IV | advised him to~take Andre de Chenier and substitute certain
109 IV | pass the evening~at Mme. de Bargeton's, we can spend
110 IV | the drawing-room; but M. de Bargeton was there,~alone.
111 IV | husband face to face.~ ~M. de Bargeton's intellect was
112 IV | this morning to please Mme. de Bargeton, who is very fond~
113 IV | conversation dropped dead.~Then M. de Bargeton mutely implored
114 IV | of Angouleme credited M. de Bargeton with more understanding
115 IV | they went off to give M. de Bargeton the benefit of
116 IV | eulogistic~smile. Madame de Bargeton's rooms were always
117 IV | tidy, and~cared for, M. de Bargeton had come to feel
118 IV | that costs~nothing! Mme. de Bargeton, knowing that her
119 IV | pride, and argued that M. de Bargeton must possess good~
120 IV | hidden from public view. Mme. de Bargeton had drilled him~
121 IV | the house~long enough. M. de Bargeton, spread at full
122 IV | natural enough," said M. de Bargeton.~ ~Lucien took
123 IV | live in L'Houmeau," said M. de Bargeton, "and people who
124 IV | don't know," answered M. de Bargeton, relapsing into
125 IV | cause."~ ~"Ah!" said M. de Bargeton, "final causes!
126 IV | resuscitate it.~ ~"Mme. de Bargeton is dressing, no
127 IV | he must conciliate Mme. de~Bargeton's husband, he tried
128 IV | he began, returning to M. de~ ~Bargeton.~ ~"Very seldom."~ ~
129 IV | seldom."~ ~Silence again. M. de Bargeton watched Lucien'
130 IV | uncomfortable sense of M.~de Bargeton's imagined hostility.
131 IV | humiliate him in~his poverty. M. de Bargeton had counted on
132 IV | At this moment Mme. de Bargeton appeared in all
133 IV | ecclesiastics followed Mme. de Chandour and her~husband,
134 IV | purely~imaginary. Amelie de Chandour posed as the rival
135 IV | Angouleme;~her husband, M. de Chandour, known in the circle
136 IV | matter of~fact, since Mme. de Bargeton had taken him up,
137 IV | like a challenge.~ ~Amelie de Chandour, short, plump,
138 IV | would~not confess.~ ~M. de Saintot, otherwise Astolphe,
139 IV | character and demeanor. Mme. de Saintot was a solemn~and
140 IV | the general belief in M. de Saintot's abilities.~ ~After
141 IV | After this pair came M. de Bartas, known as Adrien
142 IV | among the circle.~It was M. de Bartas who boomed out his
143 IV | composer.~ ~M. Alexandre de Brebian performed heroic
144 IV | department. M.~Alexandre de Brebian and M. de Bartas
145 IV | Alexandre de Brebian and M. de Bartas came together, each
146 IV | women, Mesdames Charlotte de Brebian and Josephine de
147 IV | de Brebian and Josephine de Bartas, or~Lolotte and Fifine,
148 IV | the rooms was M. le Comte de Senonches,~known by the
149 IV | friend of the house.~ ~Madame de Senonches (Zephirine) was
150 IV | fortunes of M. and Mme. de Senonches with the most
151 IV | monstrously immoral. Mme. de Senonches, however, had
152 IV | attachment to this Mlle.~de la Haye was beginning to
153 IV | in dates,~that Francoise de la Haye bore a striking
154 IV | envied, was the Marquis de Pimentel; he and his wife,
155 IV | the Baron and Baroness de Rastignac~and their party,
156 IV | everybody saw that Mme. de Bargeton paid~marked attention
157 IV | a~dignified reserve. M. de Pimentel and M. de Rastignac,
158 IV | reserve. M. de Pimentel and M. de Rastignac, for instance,~
159 IV | wight happened first upon M. de Bartas,~who talked music
160 IV | in reply, and next on M. de Saintot, who quoted~Cicero
161 IV | of the~unfortunate.~ ~M. de Severac was fifty-nine years
162 IV | Mme. du~Brossard and M. de Severac to a glorious close
163 IV | chatter a good deal with Mlle. de la Haye. The women solemnly
164 IV | encouraging~example of Mme. de Bargeton, who welcomed the
165 IV | no one except Louise, M. de Bargeton, the Bishop, and
166 IV | house, spoke of him as M. de~Rubempre; for his formidable
167 IV | Jacques was giving~Mme. de Pimentel the history of
168 IV | holding forth to Mlle. Laure de Rastignac on Rossini, the
169 IV | in the room besides Mme. de Bargeton who could understand~
170 V | efforts on the part of M. de Bargeton, who, obedient
171 V | the round table near Mme. de Bargeton.~A fierce thrill
172 V | recently (for although Andre de Chenier's poems appeared
173 V | way--it was a shift of Mme. de Bargeton's,~meant to save
174 V | the~exceptions of Laure de Rastignac, the Bishop, and
175 V | Bishop, and~pretty Laure de Rastignac besought Lucien
176 V | explained," said she. "M. de Rubempre works for a~printer.
177 V | does he call himself M. de Rubempre?" inquired Jacques. "
178 V | All Angouleme,~except Mme. de Rastignac and her two daughters
179 V | delicate idyll Neere.~ ~Mme. de Bargeton sat with one hand
180 V | tolerably fatuous glance at Mme. de Bargeton, he announced~"
181 V | and at ease~behind Mme. de Bargeton's petticoat. And
182 V | the selfsame moment Mme.~de Bargeton betrayed her own
183 V | could only look at Mme. de Bargeton and give embarrassed~
184 V | Chardon,~sometimes as M. de Rubempre, while they addressed
185 V | addressed the coarse~M. de Senonches as M. Lili; that
186 V | MONSIEUR LULU?" and Mme. de Bargeton flushed red to
187 V | to speak to the Marquise de Pimentel--"Do you not see~
188 V | between M. Chardon and M. de Cante-Croix, madame?"~she
189 V | likeness is ideal," smiled Mme. de Pimentel.~ ~"Glory has a
190 V | can confess," said Mme.~de Bargeton, addressing the
191 V | monsieur," said the Marquis de Pimentel,~addressing Lucien
192 V | purpose of calling him M. de Rubempre, and~not M. Chardon,
193 V | raised his head at Mme. de~Bargeton's reply--~ ~"My
194 V | poetry does not grow in M. de Rubempre's head like grass
195 V | deal~his deathblow.~ ~Mme. de Bargeton's eyes traveled
196 V | mouth was aggravated by M.~de Bargeton's imbecility; he
197 V | your meaning," said Mme. de Bargeton, and the words~
198 V | indeed in the~Church.--M. de Rubempre, will you recite
199 V | leaving Lucien~and Mme. de Bargeton to themselves.
200 V | Camille's talents for M. de Severac's~benefit.~ ~Mme.
201 V | wished to make amends. Mlle. de~Rastignac, fascinated by
202 V | to be had cheaply," Mme. de Bargeton continued, taking~
203 V | your subject," said Laure de Rastignac, expressing her~
204 V | will be his," said Mme. de Bargeton rhetorically. "
205 V | in the doorway with Mme.~de Rastignac, who came to look
206 V | us."~ ~"My dear child, M. de Rubempre is just about to
207 V | women were jealous of Mme. de Bargeton, the Beatrice of
208 V | hastening to the torture in Mme. de Bargeton's rooms,~his sister
209 V | you~refused to go to Mme. de Bargeton's, you were quite
210 V | dogged work. What will Mme. de Bargeton give your brother
211 V | has grown so much~in Mme. de Bargeton's boudoir, that
212 V | If he means to go to Mme. de~Bargeton's, he must not
213 VI | and Langlee (where Leorier de l'Isle~endeavored in 1776
214 VI | this moment; and the~Comte de Saint-Simon, who happened
215 VI | and such pettiness.~ ~"M. de Bargeton is an old dotard.
216 VI | people; I will marry Mme. de Bargeton. I~read to-night
217 VI | surprise at the news. Mme. de Bargeton's lover had been~
218 VI | to the ground. "If Mme. de Bargeton~consents to be
219 VI | Bargeton~consents to be Mme. de Rubempre, she would never
220 VI | Lucien's~fancy had put M. de Bargeton to death, he would
221 VI | pressed upon his head.~"M. de Rubempre" discovered David'
222 VI | Bishop's~epigram and Mme. de Bargeton's reply. Every
223 VI | has some brains, and Mme. de Bargeton is quite wild about
224 VI | he was not mistaken; Mme. de Bargeton~met him with a
225 VI | in the world, in came M. de Bargeton. Lucien~frowned
226 VI | dinner and to read Andre de Chenier aloud to them~until
227 VI | give her pleasure," said M. de Bargeton, "and me also.~
228 VI | dinner."~ ~Cajoled by M. de Bargeton, cajoled by Louise,
229 VI | Lucien~remained in the Hotel de Bargeton, and began to think
230 VI | rightful accessories of~Lucien de Rubempre. He felt his position
231 VI | through Louise's~love and M. de Bargeton's weakness, that
232 VI | conqueror's airs with Mme. de Bargeton."~ ~"Love knows
233 VI | between M. Chardon (alias de Rubempre) and Mme. de Bargeton~
234 VI | alias de Rubempre) and Mme. de Bargeton~was not discussed;
235 VI | the worst of both. Mme. de Bargeton paid the penalty
236 VI | glance exchanged between Mme. de Bargeton and Lucien outweighed
237 VI | of his good fortune on M. de Bargeton's~tomb. M. de Bargeton,
238 VI | de Bargeton's~tomb. M. de Bargeton, troubled with
239 VI | printer's~foreman; he was M. de Rubempre, housed sumptuously
240 VI | four~times a week with Mme. de Bargeton. A friendship had
241 VI | had grown up between~M. de Rubempre and the Bishop,
242 VI | credit for~forsaking Mme. de Bargeton and grand dinners
243 VI | scandal. Sixte meant that Mme. de Bargeton~should compromise
244 VI | goes; so he posed as Mme. de Bargeton's humble~confidant,
245 VI | and~condemned, and Mme. de Bargeton was now on the
246 VI | most vehement desires. Mme. de Bargeton, for instance,
247 VI | the utmost propriety. M. de Bargeton~pervaded the house
248 VI | still hung in doubt.~ ~Mme. de Bargeton could not set foot
249 VI | without her house,~Mme. de Bargeton lived in public.~ ~
250 VI | spend alone together. Mme. de Bargeton~had no country
251 VI | later,~always taking M. de Chandour, the most indiscreet
252 VI | suspicion in Lucien and in Mme. de Bargeton, who was not~without
253 VI | controversy on the point with M. de~Chandour. Chatelet said
254 VI | Chatelet said that Mme. de Bargeton was simply amusing~
255 VI | wished to appear as Mme. de~Bargeton's champion. Stanislas
256 VI | Bargeton's champion. Stanislas de Chandour held that Mme.
257 VI | Chandour held that Mme. de Bargeton~had not been cruel
258 VI | These polemics kept~Mme. de Bargeton and Lucien well
259 VI | whenever~he went with M. de Chandour to Mme. de Bargeton'
260 VI | with M. de Chandour to Mme. de Bargeton's and found Lucien~
261 VI | any of~us desire.~ ~Mme. de Bargeton read fixed purpose
262 VI | and reverences love. Mme. de~Bargeton having made up
263 VII | door of the salon. Mme. de Bargeton sprang up in a
264 VII | asked the servants.~ ~"M. de Chandour and M. du Chatelet,"
265 VII | her old footman.~ ~Mme. de Bargeton went back, pale
266 VII | detected at Nais feet. M. de Chandour, elated by the
267 VII | Chatelet, "I think that M. de Rubempre's~position in itself
268 VII | end. Chatelet~took Mme. de Bargeton's part; but he
269 VII | agog, he went off to Mme. de Bargeton's, where, alas!
270 VII | says that he SAW you and M.~de Rubempre in such a position
271 VII | but, between~ourselves, M. de Bargeton is the proper person
272 VII | to Paris. Meanwhile Mme. de Bargeton's adorer found
273 VII | ill-founded tittle-tattle, M. de Bargeton was~preparing to
274 VII | certain solemnity.~ ~M. de Bargeton followed her into
275 VII | show a warm interest in~M. de Rubempre, which he, as well
276 VII | for both you and me if M. de Rubempre~defends her. Go
277 VII | I am going," said M. de Bargeton, and he took his
278 VII | It did not trouble M. de Bargeton that he must stand
279 VII | uncomfortable, and on the way to M. de Chandour's house he quaked~
280 VII | ridiculous.~ ~But people of M. de Bargeton's stamp, who live
281 VII | loosens their~tongues. So M. de Bargeton bore himself like
282 VII | significant fashion from M. de Bargeton to Stanislas, whom~
283 VII | time of night, when old M. de~Bargeton was invariably
284 VII | to his~feet and took M. de Bargeton aside, saying, "
285 VII | possibly might~make Mme. de Bargeton a widow, while
286 VII | Then Chatelet went to M. de~Chandour.~ ~"Stanislas,"
287 VII | that you discovered Mme.~de Bargeton and M. de Rubempre
288 VII | Mme.~de Bargeton and M. de Rubempre in an equivocal
289 VII | second. My father-in-law, M. de Negrepelisse, will~wait
290 VII | This was the speech that M. de Bargeton had ruminated on
291 VII | Chatelet was smiling, M. de Bargeton looked exactly
292 VII | the other half admired M. de Bargeton's attitude.~Chatelet
293 VII | solemn and mysterious. M. de Bargeton stayed a few~minutes,
294 VII | with one voice, that M. de Bargeton was within his~
295 VII | acting like this?"~asked M. de Saintot.~ ~"But he was a
296 VIII | people in the market. M. de Bargeton all but~killed
297 VIII | Bargeton all but~killed M. de Chandour this morning in
298 VIII | Poie.) It seems that M. de Chandour said~that he found
299 VIII | that he found you with Mme. de Bargeton yesterday."~ ~"
300 VIII | yesterday."~ ~"It is a lie! Mme. de Bargeton is innocent," cried
301 VIII | it all from his~cart. M. de Negrepelisse came over at
302 VIII | in the morning to~be M. de Bargeton's second; he told
303 VIII | Bargeton's second; he told M. de Chandour that if anything~
304 VIII | officer~lent the pistols. M. de Negrepelisse tried them
305 VIII | at twenty-five paces. M. de~Bargeton looked as if he
306 VIII | fire; the ball lodged in M. de Chandour's neck, and he~
307 VIII | hospital has just said that M. de Chandour will have a wry
308 VIII | lest you should~go to Mme. de Bargeton's or show yourself
309 VIII | Angouleme, for some of M.~de Chandour's friends might
310 VIII | apprentice brought in Gentil, M. de Bargeton's~footman. The
311 VIII | for not going to see Mme. de~Bargeton quite so often."~ ~"
312 VIII | he slipped~away to Mme. de Bargeton. He found Nais
313 VIII | table with her husband; M.~de Bargeton's early morning
314 VIII | the dignified face of M. de Negrepelisse, the old provincial~
315 VIII | When Gentil announced M. de Rubempre, the white-headed
316 VIII | leave her father and M.~de Bargeton together; she beckoned
317 VIII | that this journey with Mme. de~Bargeton would virtually
318 VIII | faith in you!" she said. "M. de Cante-Croix had an adored~
319 VIII | words were needed; Mme. de~Bargeton's influence seemed
320 VIII | that to hide it from Mme. de Bargeton, David proposed~
321 VIII | for it.~ ~In spite of Mme. de Bargeton's precautions,
322 VIII | side~of Mansle, for Mme. de Bargeton. When the seventy-year
323 Addendum | Comedy.~ ~Bargeton, Madame de (see Chatelet, Baronne du)~ ~
324 Addendum | Chatelet, Marie-Louise-Anais de Negrepelisse, Baronne du~
325 Addendum | David~ ~Maucombe, Comte de~ ~Letters of Two Brides~ ~
326 Addendum | General Marquis Armand de~The Thirteen~Father Goriot~
327 Addendum | for Arcis~ ~Negrepelisse, De~The Commission in Lunacy~
328 Addendum | Pimentel, Marquis and Marquise de~Eve and David~ ~Postel~Eve
329 Addendum | Rastignac, Baron and Baronne de (Eugene's parents)~Father
330 Addendum | Rastignac, Laure-Rose and Agathe de~Father Goriot~The Member
331 Addendum | Rubempre, Lucien-Chardon de~Eve and David~A Distinguished
332 Addendum | Life~ ~Senonches, Jacques de~Eve and David~ ~Senonches,
333 Addendum | Senonches, Madame Jacques de~Eve and David~ ~Stanhope,
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