UNCONSCIOUS COMEDIANS

BY

HONORE DE BALZAC



Translated by
Katharine Prescott Wormeley




DEDICATION

To Monsieur le Comte Jules de Castellane.




UNCONSCIOUS COMEDIANS



Leon de Lora, our celebrated landscape painter, belongs to one of the
noblest families of the Roussillon (Spanish originally) which,
although distinguished for the antiquity of its race, has been doomed
for a century to the proverbial poverty of hidalgos. Coming,
light-footed, to Paris from the department of the Eastern Pyrenees,