Note 49 — III The ‘Clerks’—The Great Betrayal

Compare with Balzac, who, though a Conservative, never hesitates to show his Conservatives and particularly his Catholics in an unfavourable light, if he thinks that the true light. See the examples quoted by E. Seillière (Balzac et la morale romantique, pp. 27 onwards, and 84 onwards), who sharply reproaches Balzac.