Balzac 
Subtitle: La comédie humaine, tome 10
Publisher: Gallimard
Published: February 21, 1979
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 1834
ISBN-13: 9782070108688
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.