Nearly the whole Chamber rises and votes the admission; a few
  deputies of the Centre alone abstain from taking part in the
  demonstration.

  M. de Sallenauve is admitted and takes the oath.

The President.—­The order of the day calls for the reading of the Address to the Throne, but the chairman of the committee appointed to prepare it informs me that the document in question cannot be communicated to the Chamber before to-morrow.  Nothing else being named in the order of the day, I declare this sitting adjourned.

  The Chamber rose at half-past four o’clock.

TRANSLATOR’S NOTE

Note.—­“The Deputy of Arcis,” of which Balzac wrote and published the first part in 1847, was left unfinished at his death.  He designated M. Charles Rabou, editor of the “Revue de Paris,” as the person to take his notes and prepare the rest of the volume for the press.  It is instructive to a student of Balzac to see how disconnected and out of proportion the story becomes in these later parts,—­showing plainly that the master’s hand was in the habit of pruning away half, if not more, of what it had written, or—­to change the metaphor and give the process in his own language—­that he put les grands pots dans les petits pots, the quarts into the pint pots.  “If a thing can be done in one line instead of two,” he says, “I try to do it.”

Some parts of this conclusion are evidently added by M. Rabou, and are not derived from Balzac at all,—­especially the unnecessary reincarnation of Vautrin.  There is no trace of the master’s hand here.  The character is made so silly and puerile, and is so out of keeping with Balzac’s strong portrait, which never weakens, that the translator has thought best, in justice to Vautrin, to omit all that is not absolutely necessary to connect the story.

ADDENDUM

The following personages appear in other stories of the Human Comedy.

Arthez, Daniel d’
  A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
  Letters of Two Brides
  The Secrets of a Princess

Beauvisage (tenant)
  The Gondreville Mystery

Beauvisage, Phileas
  Cousin Betty

Bixiou, Jean-Jacques
  The Purse
  A Bachelor’s Establishment
  The Government Clerks
  Modeste Mignon
  Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life
  The Firm of Nucingen
  The Muse of the Department
  Cousin Betty
  Beatrix
  A Man of Business
  Gaudissart II. 
  The Unconscious Humorists
  Cousin Pons

Blondet, Virginie
  Jealousies of a Country Town
  The Secrets of a Princess
  The Peasantry
  A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
  Another Study of Woman
  A Daughter of Eve

Brandon, Lady Marie Augusta
  The Lily of the Valley
  La Grenadiere