Catherine de'Medici

By: Balzac, Honoré de

At the corner of a street which no longer exists in a Paris which no longer exists Few persons in the present day know how plain and unpretentious were the dwellings of the burghers of Paris in the sixteenth century, and how simpletheir lives. Perhaps this simplicity of habits and of thought was the cause ofthe grandeur of that old bourgeoisie which was certainly grand, free, andnoble, more so, perhaps, than the bourgeoisie of the present day. Its historyis still to be written; it requires and it awaits a man of genius..

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08R8ZD97Q
• ISBN13: 9798578905490
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 366 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.9" x 5.0"