The Lily of the Valley (Balzac, tr. Wormeley)/Dedication


 * To Monsieur J. B. Nacquart,
 * Member of the Royal Academy of Medicine.


 * Dear Doctor&mdash;Here is one of the most carefully hewn stones in the second course of the foundation of a literary edifice which I have slowly and laboriously constructed. I wish to inscribe your name upon it, as much to thank the man whose science once saved me as to honor the friend of my daily life.


 * De Balzac.