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Z. Marcas
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Balzac's story portrays Zéphirin Marcas, a gifted political thinker who dies in poverty after being used and cast aside by the politicians he served, as recounted by two young students who befriend him. 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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