"Human Follies (La Bêtise Humaine.)" by Jules Noriac is a French novel. Jules Noriac, real name Claude, Antoine, Jules Cairon, (1827-1882), was a French journalist, playwright, writer, librettist, and theatre director. He also wrote plays, operetta libretti, and novels under the pseudonym Jules Noriac. Excerpt: "When Eusebe Martin had attained his twenty-first year, his father, who was a man of sense, thus addressed him:— "Eusebe, you are no longer a child: it is time to begin your education. You were but eight years old when you lost your mother, my beloved wife. This was a great misfortune, no doubt; for her heart would have been to you a treasure of affection. However, if we were permitted to believe in compensations in this world, I should think that you had been recompensed for this loss, great as it was. Your mother, had she lived, would have spoiled you, and to-day you would not have been half the man you are."

This English translation from the original French was made from the sixteenth edition of "La Betise Humaine" and first published in 1863."

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