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The Atheist's Mass
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A short story by Honoré de Balzac, translated by Clara Bell, in which a renowned atheist surgeon is discovered attending Mass, prompting a revelation about his motives. Readers interested in French literature and Balzac's *Comédie humaine* will find it of value.
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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