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Part 1. The Election
Part 1. The Election - Chapter 1. All Elections Begin With A Bustle
_ PART I. THE ELECTION CHAPTER I. ALL ELECTIONS BEGIN WITH A BUSTLE
The Deputy of Arcis
By Honore de Balzac
Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
Before beginning to describe an election in the provinces, it is proper to state that the town of Arcis-sur-Aube was not the theatre of the events here related.
The arrondissement of Arcis votes at Bar-sur-Aube, which is forty miles from Arcis; consequently there is no deputy from Arcis in the Chamber.
Discretion, required in a history of contemporaneous manners and morals, dictates this precautionary word. It is rather an ingenious contrivance to make the description of one town the frame for events which happened in another; and several times already in the course of the Comedy of Human Life, this means has been employed in spite of its disadvantages, which consist chiefly in making the frame of as much importance as the canvas.
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