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The Purse
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A Balzac short story in which a young painter falls for a modest young woman, suspects her family of theft over a missing purse, then learns the truth of their poverty and honesty. For readers of nineteenth-century French literature and La Comédie humaine.
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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