La comédie humaine, tome VI 
Subtitle: Scènes de la vie de campagne
Publisher: Seuil
Published: January 1, 1976
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9782020007313
First sentence: ON a fine evening in the month of September, 1836, a man about thirty years of age was leaning on the parapet of that quay from which a spectator can look up the Seine from the Jardin des Plantes to Notre-Dame, and down, along the vast perspective of the river, to the Louvre.