Excerpt from The Jealousies of a Country Town: Les Rivalités

He is, however, if he is a failure, about the only failure in the book, and he is atoned for by a whole bundle of successes. Of the Chevalier, little more need be said. Balzac, it must be remembered, was the oldest novelist of distinct genius who had the opportunity of delineating the survivors of the and: régz'me from the life, and directly. It is certain - even if we hesitate at believing him quite so familiar with all the classes of higher society from the Faubourg downward, as he would have us believe him - that he saw something of most of them, and his genius was unquestionably of the kind to which a mere thumbnail study, a mere passing view, suffices for the acquisi tion of a thorough working knowledge of the object. In this.

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