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           _ GOBSECK BY HONORE DE BALZAC 
 DEDICATION To M. le Baron Barchou de Penhoen. Among all the pupils of the Oratorian school at Vendome, we are, I think, the only two who have afterwards met in mid-career of a life of letters--we who once were cultivating Philosophy when by rights we should have been minding our De viris. When we met, you were engaged upon your noble works on German philosophy, and I upon this study. So neither of us has missed his vocation; and you, when you see your name here, will feel, no doubt, as much pleasure as he who inscribes his work to you.--Your old schoolfellow, 1840                                              De Balzac. _   | 
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