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“Je suis un galérien de plume et d'encre.”
— I am a galley slave to pen and ink.
“Quels effroyables tableaux ne présenteraient pas les âmes de ceux qui environnent les lits funèbres, si l'on pouvait en peindre les idées ? Et toujours la fortune est le mobile des intrigues qui s'élaborent, des plans qui se forment, des trames qui s'ourdissent !”
— What frightful tableaux might present themselves, if one could paint the ideas found in the souls of those who surround the deathbeds? And money is always the mobilizer of the intrigues elaborated, the plans formulated, the conspiracies woven!
“La discrétion est le plus habile des calculs.”
— Discretion is the best form of calculation.
“Il y a une manière de dire ce mot rien entre amants, qui signifie tout le contraire.”
— Lovers have a way of using this word "nothing" which implies exactly the opposite.
“Il n’y a que des enfants aimants et aimés qui puissent consoler une femme de la perte de sa beauté.”
— Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
“La loi est bonne, elle est nécessaire, l'exécution en est mauvaise, et les mœurs jugent les lois d'après la manière dont elles s'exécutent.”
— The law is good, it is necessary, its execution is poor, and the manners judge the laws based on the manner in which they are executed.

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Overview

Balzac is a hamlet in Rocky View County, which is in the Calgary Metropolitan Region of the Canadian province of Alberta. It is surrounded by Balzac East, an employment area to the east, and Balzac West, a planned residential community to the west. The hamlet is located immediately west of Queen Elizabeth II Highway, at the intersection with Highway 566, 24 km (15 mi) north of Calgary city centre and 12 km (7.5 mi) south of Airdrie.

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