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Ferragus, Chief of the Dévorants
Honoré de Balzac · Katharine Prescott Wormeley
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Ferragus is Honoré de Balzac's short novel, the first part of his *Histoire des Treize* trilogy, set in Paris and centered on a secret society and its consequences for a married woman's reputation. Readers interested in nineteenth-century French realism and Balzac's *Comédie humaine* will find it valuable.
Honoré de Balzac
Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, described as a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus.
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