Part 1. Cesar At His Apogee
Part 1. Cesar At His Apogee - Chapter 1
_ PART I. CESAR AT HIS APOGEE CHAPTER I
Title: Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau
Author: Honore de Balzac
Translator: Katharine Prescott Wormeley
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Chapter I
During winter nights noise never ceases in the Rue Saint-Honore except for a short interval. Kitchen-gardeners carrying their produce to market continue the stir of carriages returning from theatres and balls. Near the middle of this sustained pause in the grand symphony of Parisian uproar, which occurs about one o‘clock in the morning, the wife of Monsieur Cesar Birotteau, a perfumer established near the Place Vendome, was startled from her sleep by a frightful dream. She had seen her double. She had appeared to herself clothed in rags, turning with a shrivelled, withered hand the latch of her own shop-door, seeming to be at the threshold, yet at the same time seated in her armchair behind the counter. She was asking alms of herself, and hear

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