Download or read book The Marriage Contract; A Double Life; The Peace of a Home (Classic Reprint) written by Honoré de Balzac and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-09 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Marriage Contract; A Double Life; The Peace of a Home The old gentleman took him every evening, in an old carriage drawn by ill-harnessed old horses, attended by ill-dressed old servants, to royalist houses, where he met a society composed of the relics of the parliamentary nobility and the martial nobility. These two nobilities coalescing after the Revolution for the purpose of resisting imperial in uence, had now transformed themselves into a landed aristocracy. Crushed by the vast and swelling fortunes of the maritime cities, this Faubourg Saint Germain of Bordeaux responded by lofty disdain to the sumptuous displays of commerce, government ad ministrations, and the military. Too young to under stand social distinctions and the necessities underlying the apparent assumption which they create, Paul was bored to death among these ancients, unaware that the connections of his youth would eventually secure to him that aristocratic pre-eminence which Frenchmen will forever desire. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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."