Original title Balzac que voici, translation by Julia Tardy-Marcus, Bertelsmann Lesering, 1966, 112 pages
In her biographical essay, Françoise quotes, among others, Friedrich Engels who, in April 1888, wrote to Margaret Harkness about Balzac that his sympathies belonged “to the class doomed to perish” and that, yet, he had learned more from Balzac “than from all the professional historians, economists and statisticians of the time put together”.