VAUTRIN
By Honore de Balzac
VAUTRIN
A DRAMA IN FIVE ACTS
BY
HONORE DE BALZAC
Presented for the first time at the Porte-Saint-Martin Theatre,
Paris, March 14, 1840.
AUTHOR'S PREFACE
It is difficult for the playwright to put himself, five days after the
first presentation of his piece, in the situation in which he felt
himself on the morning after the event; but it is still more difficult
to write a preface to /Vautrin/, to which every one has written his