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When one has disproved all one’s theories, outgrown all of one’s standards, discarded all one’s criterions, and left off minding about one’s appearance, one comes to Balzac. And there he is, waiting outside his canvas tent—with such a circus going on inside.” <br /> ― <span class="authorOrTitle"> Sylvia Townsend Warner, </span> <span id=quote_book_link_219845> <a class="authorOrTitle" href="/work/quotes/212860">The Element of Lavishness: Letters of Sylvia Townsend Warner & William Maxwell, 1938-1978</a> </span> </div> <div class="quoteFooter"> <div class="right"> <a class="smallText" title="View this quote" href="/quotes/11331416-i-think-you-will-come-to-balzac-yet-when-one">1 likes</a> </div> </div> </div> <br class="clear"/> </div> <div class="quote mediumText "> <div class="quoteDetails fullLine"> <a class="leftAlignedImage quoteAvatar " href="/author/show/40496.Fran_ois_Ren_de_Chateaubriand"> <img alt="François-René de Chateaubriand" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1651463191i/40496._UX200_CR0,38,200,200_.jpg" /> </a> <div class="quoteText"> “Memories of the wrath of the League and the clashes of the Fronde had favored the establishment of absolute monarchy; the governments of Louis XIV's despotism, when that great prince went to relax among his ancestors in Saint-Denis, made the yearning for freedom more bitter. The old monarchy had lasted six and a half centuries with its feudal and aristocratic liberties. How long had the state formed by Louis XIV lasted? One hundred and forty years. 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After lengthy training in this struggle with the opaque, he will be able to test himself against Plutarchan figures, who are, in contrast, obscured by an excess of testimony - that thick carapace history secretes to keep them remote from us. And the end of his arrogant rise, the historian wants to meet Napoleon as if the latter were a stranger. 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