Honoré de Balzac

Gautier, Théophile · 1872

PARIS POULET-MALASSIS ET DE BROISE BOOKSELLERS-PUBLISHERS 9, rue des Beaux-Arts 1859 Around 1835, I lived in two small rooms in the Impasse du Doyenné, not far from the current location of the Pavillon Mollien. Although it was located in the center of Paris facing the Tuilleries and just a few steps from the Louvre, the location was deserted and wild, and it required a certain persistence for me to be found. However, one morning a young man with a distinguished look and a cordial and spiritual air approached my front door and excused himself while making his introduction; he was Jules Sandeau: he had come to recruit me on behalf of Balzac for La Chronique de Paris, a weekly journal that one…

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