A Man of Business by Honoré de Balzac
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A Man of Business
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Title: A Man of Business
Author: Honore de Balzac
Release Date: February 24, 2005 [EBook #1813]
Language: English
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A MAN OF BUSINESS
BY
HONORE DE BALZAC
Translated by Clara Bell and others
DEDICATION
To Monsieur le Baron James de Rothschild, Banker and Austrian Consul-General at Paris.
A MAN OF BUSINESS
The word lorette is a euphemism invented to describe the status of a personage, or a personage of a status, of which it is awkward to speak; the French Academie, in its modesty, having omitted to supply a definition out of regard for the age of its forty members. Whenever a new word comes to supply the place of an unwieldy circumlocution, its fortune is assured; the word lorette has passed into the language of every class of society, even where the lorette herself will never gain an entrance. It was only invented in 1840, and derived beyond a doubt from the agglomeration of such swallows' nests about the Church of Our Lady of Loretto. This information is for etymoligists only. Those gentlemen would not be so often in a quandary if mediaeval writers had only taken such pains with details of contemporary manners as we take in these days of analysis