Part 1
_ Title: The Firm of Nucingen
Author: Honore de Balzac
Translated by: James Waring
TO MADAME ZULMA CARRAUD
To whom, madame, but to you should I inscribe this work； to you whose lofty and candid intellect is a treasury to your friends； to you that are to me not only a whole public, but the most indulgent of sisters as well? Will you deign to accept a token of the friendship of which I am proud? You, and some few souls as noble, will grasp the whole of the thought underlying _The Firm of Nucingen_, appended to _Cesar Birotteau_. Is there not a whole social lesson in the contrast between the two stories?
DE BALZAC.
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Part 1
You know how slight the partitions are between the private rooms of fashionable restaurants in Paris； Very‘s largest room, for instance, is cut in two by a removable screen. This Scene is _not_ laid at Very‘s, but in snug quarters, which for reasons of my own I forbear to specify. We were two, so I will say, like Henri Monnier‘s Prudhom

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