Sarrasine

Sarrasine

(Sarrasine)

Sarrasine la crayonna dans toutes les poses ; il la fit sans voile, assise, debout, couchée…etc.

SARRASINE.
Furne, 1844,  t. .X, p. 90
Signatures :  Bertal ; Breviere

Sarrasine by Honoré de Balzac

Sarrasine

The narrator is out of sight in a window seat at a ball. As he contemplates the garden he hears bits and pieces of various conversations as the speakers move past his location.