The Elixir of Life by Honoré de Balzac

28 pages first pub 1830 (editions)

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One winter evening, in a princely palace at Ferrara, Don Juan Belvidero was giving a banquet to a prince of the house of Este. A banquet in those times was a marvelous spectacle which only royal wealth or the power of a mightly sic] lord could fu...

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