Beskrivning
This door, dark green in colour, without any visible lock, and on which the tax collector had not yet required a number to be painted; this wall, along which nettles and spiky grasses grow; this road, with furrows made bywagon wheels, and with its other walls grey and cracked, crowned with foliage; here everything mirrors the silence that reigns in the Luxembourg Gardens, in the Carmelite convent, and in the gardens of the Rue de Fleurus. If you went there, you would ask yourself, ”Who could possibly live here?” Who? You’re about to find out.
Honoré de Balzac is one of the great storytellers of Paris. In this charming tale, we step into a city before its famous boulevards and straight avenues took shape – a Paris of winding streets and hidden corners. Here, we meet a scatterbrained scientist, his sharp-tongued housekeeper, and his wife, who seems to be keeping a secret…
