Produced by Barbara Tozier, Bill Tozier, Josephine Paolucci and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net. THE WORKS OF HONORÉ De BALZAC About Catherine de' Medici Seraphita AND OTHER STORIES With Introductions by GEORGE SAINTSBURY UNIVERSITY EDITION AVIL PUBLISHING COMPANY PHILADELPHIA. COPYRIGHTED 1901 BY John D. Avil _All Rights Reserved_ CONTENTS PART I PAGE _INTRODUCTION_ ix _ABOUT CATHERINE DE' MEDICI_: (_Sur Catherine de Medicis_) PREFACE 3 PART I. THE CALVINIST MARTYR 44 " II. THE RUGGIERI'S SECRET 233 " III. THE TWO DREAMS 308 _GAMBARA_ 327 (_Gambara_) PART II _INTRODUCTION_ ix _SERAPHITA_: (_Séraphita_) I. SERAPHITUS 2 II. SERAPHITA 22 III. SERAPHITA--SERAPHITUS 40 IV. THE CLOUDS OF THE SANCTUARY 82 V. THE FAREWELL 112 VI. THE ROAD TO HEAVEN 123 VII. THE ASSUMPTION 134 _LOUIS LAMBERT_ 145 (_Louis Lambert_) _THE EXILES_ (_Les Proscrits_) ALMAE SORORI 259 _MAÎTRE CORNÉLIUS_ 293 (_Maître Cornélius_) _THE ELIXIR OF LIFE_ 359 (_L'Elixir de longue Vie_) (Translators, CLARA BELL AND JAMES WARING) ILLUSTRATIONS PART I QUADRANGLE OF THE COLLEGE OF VENDÔME WHERE BALZAC WAS EDUCATED _Frontispiece_ PAGE "I AM CHAUDIEU!" 53 PLACED HIMSELF IN FRONT OF A LOOKING-GLASS 328 PART II TOWER IN WHICH BALZAC PASSED MOST OF HIS TIME AT COLLEGE 164 HE NOW SAW WITH A TERRIFIED SHUDDER THAT THERE WAS A BRIGHT LIGHT ON THE STAIRS, AND PERCEIVED CORNÉLIUS, IN HIS OLD DALMATIC, CARRYING HIS LAMP 324 ABOUT CATHERINE DE' MEDICI AND GAMBARA INTRODUCTION