Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau by Honoré de Balzac

La Comédie Humaine #39

Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau

Honoré de Balzac with Katharine Prescott Wormeley (Translator)

290 pages paperback 1837

42 editions

fiction classics mysterious slow-paced
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C sar is a man of peasant origins from the Touraine region. At the start of the novel, in 1819, he owns a successful perfume shop, La Reine des Roses, he has been elected deputy mayor of his arrondissement in Paris, and he has been awarded the Leg...

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