Sons of the Soil by Honore de Balzac

Table of Contents

• Dedication
• Part I
  • Chapter I. The Chateau
  • Chapter II. A Bucolic Overlooked by Virgil
  • Chapter III. The Tavern
  • Chapter IV. Another Idyll
  • Chapter V. Enemies Face to Face
  • Chapter VI. A Tale of Thieves
  • Chapter VII. Certain Lost Social Species
  • Chapter VIII. The Great Revolutions of a Little Valley
  • Chapter IX. Concerning the Mediocracy
  • Chapter X. The Sadness of a Happy Woman
  • Chapter XI. The Oaristys, Eighteenth Eclogue of Theocritus; Little Admired on the Police Calendar
  • Chapter XII. Showeth How the Tavern is the People's Parliament
  • Chapter XIII. A Type of the Country Usurer
• Part II
  • Chapter I. The Leading Society of Soulanges
  • Chapter II. The Conspirators in the Queen's Salon
  • Chapter III. The Cafe de la Paix
  • Chapter IV. The Triumvirate of Ville-aux-Fayes
  • Chapter V. Victory Without a Fight
  • Chapter VI. The Forest and the Harvest
  • Chapter VII. The Greyhound
  • Chapter VIII. Rural Virtue
  • Chapter IX. The Catastrophe
  • Chapter X. The Triumph of the Vanquished
  • Addendum