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The Commission in Lunacy
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Part of Balzac's *La Comédie humaine*, this short novel concerns a legal inquiry into whether a marquis should be declared insane and stripped of control over his fortune, a matter complicated by his estranged wife's motives. It will interest readers of nineteenth-century French literature and those exploring Balzac's studies of Parisian society and law.
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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