S6. Source editor’s annotation First version: “September 29. In human nature well regulated and well ordered, childhood has as its share love of the whole, or of everything agreeable that the world contains; youth, love of women; maturity, love of order; and old age, love of God. Love of everything, love of women, love of order and love of God are thus the four loves corresponding to the four ages of our life. But there are sublime souls who, giving themselves from youth and sometimes even from childhood to love of order and love of God [etc.]” Further on: “September 30. Love of the whole, love of women, love of order and love of God are the four loves of life or of the four ages, in well-ordered nature.”
T113. The nominal opening, repeated four, all four loves and their order remain. From youth/almost childhood, privileged, long life and the restrictive final innocence remain. The earlier versions’ different ages and descriptions are kept in the annotation rather than substituted here. The source’s masculine ordonné after feminine vie humaine is retained literally in French; English well-ordered does not reproduce grammatical gender.
T122. Both internal dates and two distinct quotations remain within one apparatus paragraph. The whole/tout and everything/tout variations, regulated/ordered pair, four ages, sublime and sometimes even remain. The printed [etc.] is not expanded from the main passage, and neither variant becomes a new main entry.
T359. One continuous roman apparatus paragraph contains the 29 septembre quotation, editorial Plus loin and the 30 septembre quotation. Both dates remain apparatus data, distinct from the main 30 septembre . The two du tout phrases and intervening de tout , four ages, two initial qualities, sublime souls and quelquefois même remain. The first quotation ends with literal printed [etc.] without completion; the second includes its period before the closing guillemet. Mûr has a peaked upper mark at qualified color resolution.
T114. Both dependent That formulations, And and colon remain. Harmonies renders accords while retaining the possible sense of agreement; no theory of musical or political organization is supplied. The second restriction remains explicit.
T360. Both dependent Que openings, the second colon and restriction remain. The single paragraph is separately divided and undated. No governing clause is supplied.
T115. The repeated no one/is wise/unless/pious and second perfect has known remain. The second sentence is not deleted as redundant or expanded into an independent doctrinal conclusion.
T361. The weekday and complete 1 with small raised er are visible in color/native 409. The suffix is date typography, not an apparatus call; no calendar calculation is used to alter the printed weekday. Both nul /wise/pious formulations and the second perfect a connu remain.
T116. The universal all and spatial above remain; a theological or optical explanation is not inserted.
T362. This separately divided final sentence is undated. Toute and de haut remain without a supplied theological or optical explanation. The source specialist’s facsimile collation records the 877 quotation/call boundaries, missing final period, literal ordonné/fesons/C’était versus apparatus connaissons/faisons , dates, hébraïser upper marks and italic Id. , with all stated individual reading qualifications retained.
S1. Source editor’s annotation First version: “[…] vision? Might some I know not what ray light certain men better than certain others, and during the day of life might God show himself to some outside the cloud? But how dare think it?”
T123. The conditional question, indeed, two nominal possibilities and concessive hypothetical remain. Sight distinguishes printed vuë from vision without specifying a mystical experience; no claim that the possibility has been realized is added. The separate source period after the question mark is retained; the source-note call belongs between the two marks.
T132. The opening printed omission, tentative questions, comparative better, some and day-of-life/cloud imagery remain. I know not what renders the openly uncertain ray rather than identifying a revelation. The final infinitive question stays without a supplied personal subject.
T363. Two separately indented paragraphs share the complete 2 octobre . The conditional inquiry, en effet and concessive quand remain. Both vuë forms have two upper e components. Raised 1 follows obtenu? before a separate baseline period, retained as ?. in the plain body. The second paragraph literally appears nuï , with a short i stem and two upper components in color and native 410; no tall final t is visible. This qualified anomalous reading is not silently completed to contextual nuit . The question mark and three following dots remain.
T364. One roman first-version paragraph retains the literal printed [...] omission, Je ne scais quel , interrogative inversion, two conditional verbs and the comparative mieux . The day-of-life/cloud image and final subjectless infinitive question remain. The closed quotation and final question mark are not supplemented from the main text.
T124. This separate nominal paragraph retains all three possibilities, question and following ellipsis. A leading preserves conduite as a guiding or being led, without supplying a guide or asserting a completed deliverance. The source literally prints the qualified anomalous nuï , with no certified final t . English [night] is a contextual interpretation through nuit , not a recovered French word or a reproduction-loss restoration; the French remains unchanged. The distinct cloud wording in the first-version annotation is not substituted here.
T125. The topic fragment, every, conditional qualification and obligation remain. The repeated marvelous and alone retain the exclusive relation; lastingness renders durée without supplying historical fame.
T365. The complete 4 octobre governs two paragraphs. Tout , the if condition, devoir , repeated merveilleux and seul remain. In the French source, the Calmet quotation is one uninterrupted quoted span including its attribution and parenthesis, with repeated Les anciens . The source form dom is lowercase and all bibliographical words are roman. The later French Boileau quotation has its baseline period outside the closing guillemet; the separate parenthetic Remarq. pointer retains et in and its internal period. The his-/toire wrap is complete. No external quotation is independently verified.
T126. The repeated ancients, too much, paired nothing and quoted vicious care remain, together with the subsequent disagreement and time contrast. English separates the narrator’s says clause with quotation marks for readability; the French has one uninterrupted quoted span around that sentence and its report. The abbreviated bibliographical pointer receives an English gloss, including its unusual in Balzac, without identifying an edition or authenticating either quotation. English capitalizes Dom conventionally for printed lowercase dom and places the period inside the Boileau quotation. The quotations and bibliographical pointer remain roman.
T127. The obligation, alternative ranks, direct second-person imperative and parallel possessive objects remain. The second clause’s verb stays implicit; no modern occupational equivalence is imposed. English uses a semicolon after scepter where the source has a comma, preserving the following and and the two parallel conditions.
T366. This separately divided paragraph is undated. The obligation, lower/higher alternative, second-person conditions and final implied verb remain. The French lexical c’est-à-dire hyphens and following comma are retained; no social referent is supplied.
T128. The repeated through, superlative corruption, whatever concession and royal/dominion language remain. She follows the feminine soul throughout; light and peace stay distinct qualities. Both final par phrases receive explicit through. English adds a comma after continence for readability; the French has none there.
T367. The complete 6 octobre , repeated Par/par , feminine subject, superlative and whatever-state concession remain. Both final par phrases and the royal/empire image remain. No comma follows continence in the source.