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