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THE SECRETS OF THE PRINCESSE DE CADIGNAN
BY
HONORE DE BALZAC

Translated by
Katharine Prescott Wormeley

DEDICATION
To Theophile Gautier


THE SECRETS OF THE PRINCESSE DE CADIGNAN

CHAPTER I
THE LAST WORD OF TWO GREAT COQUETTES
After the disasters of the revolution of July, which destroyed so many
aristocratic fortunes dependent on the court, Madame la Princesse de
Cadignan was clever enough to attribute to political events the total
ruin she had caused by her own extravagance. The prince left France
with the royal family, and never returned to it, leaving the princess
in Paris, protected by the fact of his absence; for their debts, which
the sale of all their salable property had not been able to
extinguish, could only be recovered through him.
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