num_pages: 380
description: Discretion, required in a history of contemporaneous manners and morals, dictates this precautionary word. It is rather an ingenious contrivance to make the description of one town the frame for events which happened in another; and several times already in the course of the Comedy of Human Life, this means has been employed in spite of its disadvantages, which consist chiefly in making the frame of as much importance as the canvas.
language: English
title: The Deputy Of Arcis
titlecomplete: The Deputy Of Arcis
genres: French Literature, 19th Century, France
ratings_count: 45
series: La Comédie Humaine, Études de mœurs : Scènes de la vie politique 
publisher: BiblioBazaar