Cesar Birotteau by Honoré de Balzac

320 pages paperback 1837

42 editions

fiction classics mysterious slow-paced
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This story is one of Balzac's "Scenes de la Vie Privee" within the "Comedie Humaine" sequence, and describes the irresistible rise and fall of a perfume merchant in the Rue St Honore. This novel is the French 19th-century's great poem of bankruptcy. 

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