Contents
[ INTRODUCTION ]
| [ CHAPTER I. ] | THE COUNTRYSIDE AND THE MAN |
| [ CHAPTER II. ] | A DOCTOR’S ROUND |
| [ CHAPTER III. ] | THE NAPOLEON OF THE PEOPLE |
| [ CHAPTER IV. ] | THE COUNTRY DOCTOR’S CONFESSION |
| [ CHAPTER V. ] | ELEGIES |
[ ADDENDUM ]
INTRODUCTION
In hardly any of his books, with the possible exception of Eugénie Grandet, does Balzac seem to have taken a greater interest than in Le Médecin de Campagne; and the fact of this interest, together with the merit and intensity of the book in each case, is, let it be repeated, a valid argument against those who would have it that there was something essentially sinister both in his genius and his character.