Excerpt from La France en Éveil: Balzac Et le Temps PrésentNous avons eu désir de projeter un peu de lumière sur les fondrières contemporaines. Le temps présent a besoin, a la fois, qu'on le mesure et qu'on le prévienne.Balzac, pour cette mise de la France en éveil, nous a semblé le jaugeur suprême et le plus vigilant réveil-matin.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.