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Translated By Katharine Prescott Wormeley  DEDICATION To
Monsieur de Margone. In grateful remembrance, from his guest at
the Chateau de Sache. De Balzac.    CHAPTER I JUDAS The autumn
of the year 1803 was one of the finest in the early part of that
period of the present century which we now call "Empire." Rain
had refreshed the earth during the month of October, so that the
trees