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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Ball at Sceaux by Honore de Balzac: the sarcasm with which she had formerly attacked Maximilien, and often
made more than one Excellency smile by describing the fair foe of the
counting-house, the amazon who preached a crusade against bankers, the
young girl whose love had evaporated before a bale of muslin. The
Comte de Fontaine was obliged to use his influence to procure an
appointment to Russia for Auguste Longueville in order to protect his
daughter from the ridicule heaped upon her by this dangerous young
persecutor.
Not long after, the Ministry being compelled to raise a levy of peers
to support the aristocratic party, trembling in the Upper Chamber
under the lash of an illustrious writer, gave Monsieur Guiraudin de
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