Explore "The Lesser Bourgeoisie. the Middle Classes" by Honoré De Balzac on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
"I am a non-dispossessable property-owner! " cried Thuillier, coming home after visiting his notary. "No human power can get that house away from me. Cardot says so."
The bourgeoisie think much more of what their notary tells them than of what their attorney says. The notary is nearer to them than any other ministerial officer. The Parisian bourgeois never pays a visit to his attorney without a sense of fear; whereas he mounts the stairs with ever-renewed pleasure to see his notary; he admires that official's virtue and his sound good sense.