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Pierre Grassou
Honoré de Balzac · Katharine Prescott Wormeley
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Pierre Grassou is a short story by Honoré de Balzac, part of his La Comédie humaine, about a mediocre painter who achieves commercial success by copying the styles of established masters. Readers interested in nineteenth-century French literature and satire of the art world would 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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