ILLUSTRATIONS

PART I
QUADRANGLE OF THE COLLEGE OF VENDÔME WHERE BALZAC WAS EDUCATED [Frontispiece]
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"I AM CHAUDIEU!" [53]
PLACED HIMSELF IN FRONT OF A LOOKING-GLASS [328]
PART II
TOWER IN WHICH BALZAC PASSED MOST OF HIS TIME AT COLLEGE [164]
HE NOW SAW WITH A TERRIFIED SHUDDER THAT THERE
WAS A BRIGHT LIGHT ON THE STAIRS, AND PERCEIVED
CORNÉLIUS, IN HIS OLD DALMATIC, CARRYING HIS LAMP [324]