Albert Savarus

By

Honore de Balzac


Translated by Ellen Marriage




DEDICATION

To Madame Emile Girardin




ALBERT SAVARUS




One of the few drawing-rooms where, under the Restoration, the
Archbishop of Besancon was sometimes to be seen, was that of the
Baronne de Watteville, to whom he was particularly attached on account
of her religious sentiments.

A word as to this lady, the most important lady of Besancon.