Chapter I: Part II: INTRODUCTION ix

_SERAPHITA_:

(_Seraphita_)

I. SERAPHITUS 2

II. SERAPHITA 22

III. SERAPHITA--SERAPHITUS 40

IV. THE CLOUDS OF THE SANCTUARY 82

V. THE FAREWELL 112

VI. THE ROAD TO HEAVEN 123

VII. THE ASSUMPTION 134

_LOUIS LAMBERT_ 145

(_Louis Lambert_)

_THE EXILES_

(_Les Proscrits_)

ALMAE SORORI 259

_MAITRE CORNELIUS_ 293

(_Maitre Cornelius_)

_THE ELIXIR OF LIFE_ 359

(_L'Elixir de longue Vie_)

(Translators, CLARA BELL AND JAMES WARING)

ILLUSTRATIONS

PART I

QUADRANGLE OF THE COLLEGE OF VENDOME WHERE BALZAC WAS EDUCATED _Frontispiece_

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"I AM CHAUDIEU!" 53

PLACED HIMSELF IN FRONT OF A LOOKING-GLASS 328

PART II

TOWER IN WHICH BALZAC PASSED MOST OF HIS TIME AT COLLEGE 164

HE NOW SAW WITH A TERRIFIED SHUDDER THAT THERE WAS A BRIGHT LIGHT ON THE STAIRS, AND PERCEIVED CORNELIUS, IN HIS OLD DALMATIC, CARRYING HIS LAMP 324

ABOUT CATHERINE DE' MEDICI

AND

GAMBARA