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EBOOK SCENES FROM A COURTESAN'S LIFE ***


Produced by Dagny; Bonnie Sala and John Bickers


SCENES FROM A COURTESAN'S LIFE
BY
HONORE DE BALZAC

Translated by
James Waring


PREPARER'S NOTE
Note: The story of Lucien de Rubempre begins in the Lost Illusions
trilogy which consists of Two Poets, A Distinguished Provincial at
Paris, and Eve and David. The action in Scenes From A Courtesan's
Life commences directly after the end of Eve and David.


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 the
boschetti whose elms reminded me of the Champs-Elysees? Thus,
perchance, may I expiate the crime of having dreamed of Paris
under the shadow of the Duomo, of having longed for our muddy
streets on the clean and elegant flagstones of Porta-Renza.
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