A Man of Business by Honore de Balzac Translated by Clara Bell and others
DEDICATION To Monsieur le Baron James de Rothschild, Banker and Austrian Consul-General at Paris. A MAN OF BUSINESS The word /lorette/ is a euphemism invented to describe the status of a personage, or a personage of a status, of which it is awkward to speak; the French Academie, in its modesty, having omitted to supply a definition out of regard for the age of its forty members. Whenever a new word comes to supply the place of an unwieldy circumlocution, its fortune is assured; the word /lore...
A Man of Business by Honore de Balzac Translated by Clara Bell and others
DEDICATION To Monsieur le Baron James de Rothschild, Banker and Austrian Consul-General at Paris. A MAN OF BUSINESS The word /lorette/ is a euphemism invented to describe the status of a personage, or a personage of a status, of which it is awkward to speak; the French Academie, in its modesty, having omitted to supply a definition out of regard for the age of its forty members. Whenever a new word comes to supply the place of an unwieldy circumlocution, its fortune is assured; the word /lore...
