Balzac

CHAPTER VI.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

“Habent sua fati libelli.” – Martial

The following catalogue is a list of the works which are contained in the “Comédie Humaine,” together with those with which it was to have been completed. The titles in italics are those of the latter class.

Thereto will be found appended a complete list, chronologically arranged, of Balzac’s novels, as well as of all his treatises, essays, articles, and plays, together with an account of the different positions which they occupied. Some of these works were published anonymously, several were written in collaboration with other writers, many appeared under confusing pseudonyms, while reference to the original editions prove that the majority of the works now comprised in the Édition Définitive26 bear dates singularly at variance with those of their first publication. The preparation of this catalogue has not been, therefore, an easy task; and while it still leaves much to be desired, the compiler hopes that it may nevertheless be of some value to the Balzac bibliophile.

1

Balzac, by Madame de Surville. Calmann Lévy, Paris.

2

Correspondance de H. de Balzac. Calmann Lévy, Paris, 1877.

3

The present title is Jane la Pâle.

4

Les Rivalités..

5

Le Médecin de Campagne.

6

Ursule Mirouët.

7

Gobseck.

8

Le Père Goriot.

9

Honoré de Balzac, par Théophile Gautier. Un volume in-18, chez Poulet-Malanis, 1859.

10

La Fille aux Yeux d’Or.

11

See La Canne de M. de Balzac, par Madame de Girardin. Dumont, 1838.

12

The cholera.

13

Stomachic disorders, caused by the abuse of coffee.

14

See Introduction by M. Felix Davin to the first edition of the Comédie Humaine.

15

Correspondance de H. de Balzac.

16

Correspondance de H. de Balzac.

17

Preface to the Comédie Humaine.

18

Balzac Chez Lui. Léon Gozlan.

19

Le Figaro, 20 October, 1876.

20

H. de Balzac, by Eugène de Mirecourt. H. de Balzac, by Armand Bashet. Balzac en Pantoufles, by Léon Gozlan.

21

A villa on the Loire.

22

The disastrous result of his lawsuit with the Revue des Deux Mondes.

23

Madame de Berny, a devoted friend.

24

An allusion to the pirated editions of his works.

25

At Les Jardies.

26

Œuvres Complètes de H. de Balzac. Calmann Lévy, Paris.