Honore de Balzac

by

Albert Keim and Louis Lumet



Translated from the French by

FREDERIC TABER COOPER

with illustrations from photographs



NEW YORK

FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY, PUBLISHERS

Copyright, 1914 by Frederick A. Stokes Company



GENERAL NOTE

Of all the books perhaps the one best designed for training
the mind and forming the character is "Plutarch." The lives
of great men are object-lessons. They teach effort, devotion,
industry, heroism and sacrifice.