This story is one of Balzac's Scenes de la Vie Privee within the Comedie Humaine sequence, and describes the irresistible rise and fall of a perfume merchant in the Rue St Honore. This novel is the French 19th-century's great poem of bankruptcy.
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Cesar Birotteau by Honore de Balzac
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