"Moineau" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... shocked her, but she liked La premiere Demoiselle (afterwards L'Ecole des Manages), a play which Madame Surville found superb, but which Madame Hanska discouraged because she did not like the plot. She aided him in a financial manner by signing one of his stories, Voyage d'un Moineau de Paris. At that time, Balzac needed money and Stahl (Hetzel) refused to insert in his book, Scenes de la Vie privee de Animaux (2 vols., 1842), this story of Balzac's, who had already furnished several articles for this collection. ...
— Women in the Life of Balzac • Juanita Helm Floyd |
