Birotteau

In this respect Balzac's "Birotteau" is a masterpiece.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860 Various

Birotteau, who is a dealer in perfumes, and has invented a

Balzac 2003

She, an old maid, as inwardly shrewish as outwardly pious, utilizes the Abbe Birotteau and another clergyman, who both lodge with her, to attract the good society folk of Tours to her evening receptions.

Balzac 2003

Birotteau, to give the book its fuller title, has neither plot nor progress of love-passion.

Balzac 2003

Birotteau_, very rapidly, it bears evidence of the author's haste.

Balzac Frederick Lawton

She, an old maid, as inwardly shrewish as outwardly pious, utilizes the Abbe Birotteau and another clergyman, who both lodge with her, to attract the good society folk of Tours to her evening receptions.

Balzac Frederick Lawton

Birotteau is well-chosen as an usher to the rest, for it is eminently characteristic, though it does not show the higher imaginative qualities of the author.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860 Various

Nevertheless, we are again puzzled, when we attempt to realise the personality of a man whose imagination could soar to the mystical and philosophical conception of "Seraphita," which is full of religious poetry, and who yet had the power in "Cesar Birotteau" to invest prosaic and even sordid details with absolute verisimilitude, or in the "Contes Drolatiques" would write, in Old French, stories of

Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings

Birotteau, could certainly surpass her in writing _une preface de femme_.

Women in the Life of Balzac Juanita Helm Floyd

Birotteau, who is a dealer in perfumes, and has invented a Sultana cosmetic and a Carminative Water, has reached a position of influence and substance.

Balzac Frederick Lawton