Before the end of 1832 he is back in Paris, and in spite of his success and celebrity is probably passing through the bitterest months of his life. [*] "Correspondance," vol. i. p. 202. [+] "Correspondance," vol. i. p. 220. CHAPTER VIII 1832 - 1835 Advertisement in the _Quotidienne_--Letters between Balzac and Madame Hanska--His growing attachment to her--Meeting at Neufchatel--Return to Paris--Work--"Etudes de Moeurs au XIXieme Siecle"--"Le Medecin de Campagne"--"Eugenie Grandet"--Meets Madame Hanska at Vienna--"La Duchesse de Langeais"--Balzac's enormous power of work--"La Recherche de l'Absolu"--"Le Pere Goriot" --Vienna--Monetary difficulties--Republishes romantic novels --Continual debt--Amusements. Meanwhile, during the tragic drama of the downfall of poor Balzac's high hopes, Madame Hanska continued to write steadily; but she was becoming tired of receiving no answer to her letters, and of not even knowing whether or no they had reached their destination. Therefore she wrote on November 7th, 1832, to ask Balzac for a little message in the _Quotidienne_, which she took in regularly, to say that he had received her letters; and Balzac, in reply, inserted the following notice in the _Quotidienne_ of December 9th, 1832. "M. de B. has received the message sent him; he can only to-day give information of this through a newspaper, and regrets that he does not know where to address his answer. To. L'E.--H. de B."[*] [*] A copy of the _Quotidienne_ with this advertisement is in the possession of the Vicomte de Spoelberch de Lovenjoul, and I have seen it.