LOUIS LAMBERT

BY

HONORE DE BALZAC


Translated by
Clara Bell and James Waring




DEDICATION

"Et nunc et semper dilectoe dicatum."




LOUIS LAMBERT



Louis Lambert was born at Montoire, a little town in the Vendomois,
where his father owned a tannery of no great magnitude, and intended
that his son should succeed him; but his precocious bent for study
modified the paternal decision. For, indeed, the tanner and his wife
adored Louis, their only child, and never contradicted him in
anything.