Le Curé De Tours and Other Stories (Classic Reprint)

Book excerpt: Excerpt from Le Cur De Tours and Other Stories Balzac says in the preface to his first general edition of the Human Comedy, that the underlying idea of his work was based on a comparison between man and ani mals; that geofiroy-saint-hilaire's theory of the unity of animal composition, by which one model served for. The original construction of all organized beings, and developed into different forms under the influence of different environments, was to be applied by him to man as he exists in society; that man is one, but that men differ according to their surroundings, in the broadest sense of that term; that as Bufion had written the chronicles of the animal kingdom, so he would record in his volumes the annals of man subjected to the action of society. 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.