The Novels of Honore de Balzac: Honorine, Colonel Chabert, The Interdiction (Classic Reprint)

If the French are as unwill ing as the English are
eager to go traveling, perhaps the French and the
English are both justified. Wherever we go we
find something that is better than England, whilst
it is excessively difficult to meet anything like the
attractions of France outside of France. Other
countries offer admirable landscapes, there may be
found in them frequently a comfort superior to that
of France, which indeed makes but the slowest progress
in this respect. They display sometimes a
magnificence, a grandeur, a bedazzling luxury; they
are wanting neither in gracefulness nor in noble
manners; but the intellectual I ife, the activity of
ideas, the talent of conversation and that atticism
so familiar in Paris, that quick understanding of
that which is thought but not uttered, that genius
for comprehending, which is half of the French
language, is met with nowhere else. Thus the
Frenchman, whose jesting is already so little comprehended,
quickly withers abroad,

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