The Unknown Masterpiece

THE UNKNOWN MASTERPIECE

By Honoré De Balzac

TO A LORD

1845

I--GILLETTE

On a cold December morning in the year 1612, a young man, whose clothing was somewhat of the thinnest, was walking to and fro before a gateway in the Rue des Grands-Augustins in Paris. He went up and down the street before this house with the irresolution of a gallant who dares not venture in...