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Excerpt from The Works of Honore De Balzac, Vol. 2: Beatrix; Fame and Sorrow; Colonel Chabert; The Atheist's Mass; The Purse; La Grenadiere
The streets are what they were four hundred years ago, with one exception: polmlation no longer swarms there; the social movement is now so dead that a traveller wishing to examine the town (as beau tiful as a suit of antique armor) may walk alone, not without sadness, through a deserted street, where the mullioned Windows are plastered up to avoid the win dow-tax. This street ends at a postern, hanked with a wall of masonry, beyond which rises a bouquet of trees planted by the hands of Breton nature, one of the most luxuriant and fertile vegetations in France. A painter, a poet would sit there silently, to taste the quietude which reigns beneath the well-preserved arch of the postern, where no voice comes from the life of the peaceful city, and where the landscape is seen in its rich magnificence through the loop holes of the case mates once occupied by halberdiers and archers, which are not unlike the sashes of some belvedere arranged for a point of view.
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