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The Illustrious Gaudissart
Honoré de Balzac · Katharine Prescott Wormeley
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Part of Balzac's *La Comédie humaine*, this short work follows a traveling salesman whose confidence and salesmanship are tested during a business trip. Readers interested in nineteenth-century French literature and Balzac's studies of social types 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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