La Girardin, Emile de, Mme 1804-1855 creator text utu 2007 monographic fr 1 online resource : multiple file formats "La canne de M. de Balzac" by Mme Emile de Girardin is a novel published in 1836. This satirical work centers on a magical walking stick belonging to Honoré de Balzac that renders its holder invisible when held in the left hand. Tancrède Dorimont, a man cursed by his own beauty and burdened with both a tragic and comic name, discovers the cane and uses its power to read women's hearts as skillfully as Balzac himself, transforming his miserable existence into one of fortune and love. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Canne_de_M._de_Balzac Release date is 2007-05-07 Produced by Mireille Harmelin, Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at DP Europe (http://dp.rastko.net); produced from images of the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BNF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr Original publication data not identified Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850 -- Fiction PQ Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21343 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21343 UtSlPG 260607 20260610133507.0 21343