Excerpt from Honore De Balzac in Twenty-Five Volumes, Vol. 6 of 25: The First Complete Translation Into English; Pierrette; The Abbe Birotteau; A Bachelor's Establishment; With Illustrations From Drawings on the Wood by Famous French Artists These things, however, are very much a case of As You Like It or As It Strikes You, and I have said that The Abbe Birotteau strikes some good udges as of exceptional merit, while no one can refuse it merit in a high degree. 1 should not, except for the opening, place it in the very high est class of the Comedie, but it is high beyond all doubt in the second. 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."