*** start of the project gutenberg ebook 1374 *** vendetta by honore de balzac translated by katharine prescott wormeley dedication to puttinati, milanese sculptor. vendetta chapter i. prologue in the year 1800, toward the close of october, a foreigner, accompanied by a woman and a little girl, was standing for a long time in front of the palace of the tuileries, near the ruins of a house recently pulled down, at the point where...