📘 Excerpt from Honoré de Balzac, 1799-1850Lorsque le jeune Honoré de Balzac, en 1819, ayant à peine terminé ses études, commença bravement, dans une mansarde de la rue Les diguières, son apprentissage de la vie littéraire, sans autre vocation, plus précise ou plus impé rieuse, que celle de se faire un nom par le moyen de sa plume et une fortune par le moyen de son nom, deux formes de roman se partageaient la faveur du public c'étaient le roman personnel et le roman historique.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.