Facino Cane - Honore de Balzac

FACINO CANE
by Honore de Balzac (transl. Clara Bell and others)

                             FACINO CANE

                                  BY

                           HONORE DE BALZAC



                            Translated By
                        Clara Bell and others


                             FACINO CANE



I once used to live in a little street which probably is not known to
you--the Rue de Lesdiguieres. It is a turning out of the Rue Saint-
Antoine, beginning just opposite a fountain near the Place de la
Bastille, and ending in the Rue de la Cerisaie. Love of knowledge
stranded me in a garret; my nights I spent in work, my days in reading
at the Bibliotheque d'Orleans, close by. I lived frugally; I had
accepted the conditions of the monastic life, necessary conditions for