01615cam a22003253u 4500 1345 UtSlPG 20260610133043.0 m cr n 260607r2005||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 PQ Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850 The Vicar of Tours Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2005 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Cur%C3%A9_de_Tours Release date is 2005-08-10 Produced by John Bickers, and Dagny, and David Widger "The Vicar of Tours" by Honoré de Balzac is a novella written in 1832. Two priests share lodgings in the home of a bitter spinster in Tours, France. The gentle Abbé Birotteau finds himself outmaneuvered by his ambitious fellow priest Troubert, who cunningly seizes his rooms, furniture, and cherished library. As Birotteau's aristocratic allies mysteriously withdraw their support, he discovers the devastating power of celibate obsession and the dark influence of religious politics in Charles X's France. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Original publication data not identified French fiction -- Translations into English Wormeley, Katharine Prescott, 1830-1908 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1345 43461 43461