WHY LAWYERS SHOULD MAKE GOOD NOVELISTS.

WHY LAWYERS SHOULD MAKE GOOD NOVELISTS. One of my favorite novels is THE CHARTERHOUSE OF PARMA by Stendhal. I saved this review by Graham Robb in the TLS (March 16, 2012) of a new volume of Balzac’s letters because of what Robb wrote about a letter from Stendhal to Balzac: “…Stendhal… thanked Balzac for his admiring review of La Chartreuse de Parme. This is the famous letter in which Stendhal revealed that, every morning, in order to ‘tune up’, he read the Code civil….”