This article opened the third and concluding number of Balzac's _Revue
Parisienne_, dated September 25, 1840. Each of the earlier numbers had
opened with a story, viz.; _Z. Marcas_ and _Les Fantaisies de Claudine_
(_Un Prince de la Bohème_) afterwards embodied in the _Comédie
Humaine_. This _Etude sur M. Beyle_ will be found in _Œuvres complètes
de H. de Balzac--XXIII--Œuvres diverses--septième partie--Essais
historiques et politiques_--Paris, Michel Lévy Frères, Editeurs, &c.,
873, pages 687 to 738. It is also reprinted in Lévy's 1853 edition of
_La Chartreuse de Parme_.