Honore de Balzac & Katharine Prescott Wormeley 
Vicar of Tours 

pub One.info present you this new edition. Early in the autumn of 1826 the Abbe Birotteau, the principal personage of this history, was overtaken by a shower of rain as he returned home from a friend’s house, where he had been passing the evening. He therefore crossed, as quickly as his corpulence would allow, the deserted little square called "The Cloister, " which lies directly behind the chancel of the cathedral of Saint-Gatien at Tours.