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Balzac, Honore de/Horace de Saint-Aubin, pseudonym of Honore de Balzac. The Centenarian, or, The Two Beringhelds.(Book review)

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From: Nineteenth-Century French Studies
Date: 20070922
Author:Poteau--Tralie, Mary

Balzac, Honore de/Horace de Saint-Aubin, pseudonym of Honore de Balzac. The Centenarian, or, The Two Beringhelds. Trans. Daniele Chatelain and George Slusser. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan UP, 2005. Pp. 308. ISBN 0-8195-6797-3.

Balzac's Le Centenaire: ou, les deux Beringhelds, published in 1822 under the pseudonym of Horace de Saint-Aubin, tells the story of the spirit-like colossus of an old man who haunts one of his descendants, the General Beringheld, during the Napoleonic era. This being (the Centenarian) appears to be one of the ancestors of the aristocratic Beringheld family ...

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