Honoré de Balzac

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Early in the year VIII., at the beginning of Vendemiaire, or, to conform to our own calendar, towards the close of September, 1799, a hundred or so of peasants and a large number of citizens, who had

The novella opens in Paris on the Rue Saint-Denis with a description of a very old house .  Opposite the house, a young man stands in the pouring rain. He stares at the house, waiting for a