The Vicar of Tours

Name: The Vicar of Tours - The Vicar of Tours
Author: Honore de Balzac

Balzac, Honore de, 1799-1850

The permanence of the work on which I inscribe your name— twice made illustrious in this century—is very problematical; whereas you have graven mine in bronze which survives nations —if only in their coins. The day may come when numismatists, discovering amid the ashes of Paris existences perpetuated by you, will wonder at the number of heads crowned in your atelier and endeavour to find in them new dynasties.

To you, this divine privilege; to me, gratitude.

De Balzac.

THE VICAR OF TOURS

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Chicago: Honore de Balzac, "The Vicar of Tours," The Vicar of Tours, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley in The Vicar of Tours Original Sources, accessed March 14, 2026, http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=RTQVNP8IZYYRJY1.

MLA: de Balzac, Honore. "The Vicar of Tours." The Vicar of Tours, translted by Katharine Prescott Wormeley, in The Vicar of Tours, Original Sources. 14 Mar. 2026. http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=RTQVNP8IZYYRJY1.

Harvard: de Balzac, H, 'The Vicar of Tours' in The Vicar of Tours, trans. . cited in , The Vicar of Tours. Original Sources, retrieved 14 March 2026, from http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=RTQVNP8IZYYRJY1.