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Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau

Honoré de Balzac

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .But to a poor devil who was despondently roaming the boulevard with a future of forty sous in his pocket when his old comrade du Tillet chanced to meet him, the little gains that he was to get out of the affair seemed an Eldorado. His friendship, his devotion, to du Tillet, increased by unreflecting gratitude and stimulated by the wants of a libertine and vagabond life, led him to say amen to everything. Having sold his honor, he saw it risked with so much caution that he ended by attaching himself to his old comrade as a dog to his master. Claparon was an ugly poodle, but as ready to jump as Curtius. In the present affair he was to represent half the purchasers of the land, while Cesar Birotteau represented the other half. The notes which Claparon was to receive from Birotteau were to be discounted by one of the usurers whose name du Tillet was authorized to use, and this would send Cesar headlong into bankruptcy so soon as Roguin had drawn from him his last funds. The a. . . Read More

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Toprak rantı, kayıt dışı para, tefecilik, finansal dalavereler ve bunları okura anlatabilmek için uzun uzadıya açıklanmış kıymetli evrak ve iflas hukuku bilgileri.. Bunlar herkese hitap etmeyebilir belki, yoksa çok daha fazla duyardık bu kitabın adını.

Although this will not make my Balzac Favorite's List, I'm very glad to have read it. Balzac's purpose in his Comedie Humaine was to provide insight into all aspects of French society. I learned aspects of the merchant class in this, but especially one aspect of finance at the time. Balzac's own int

انگار بالزاک از قرن ۱۸ ام پا شده اومده قرن ۲۱ ام و داره برای ما تعریف میکنه زندگی کردن تو فرانسه اونموقع چه شکلی بوده .با تمام جزئیات داستان رو توصیف میکنه اینکه بازرگانان چه جوری سفته بازی می‌کردند، چه جوری تجارت می‌کردند و حتی چه جوری ورشکسته می‌شدند .
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Ha Balzac valamit utál, akkor az a pénzvilág krémje, a bankárok és az uzsorások, úgyhogy ha van a devizahiteleseknek védőszentje, akkor az nyilván ő. Ennek egy cseppet sem mond ellent, hogy közben Balzac egészen nyilvánvalóan imádja a pénzt magát, hiszen aki imádja a pénzt, az szükségszerűen vagy ba

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Se imaginava praticamente impossível fossem alcançados os cumes dramáticos de "O Pai Goriot", Balzac, para espanto meu, repete a dose, com total domínio da arte, em "Ascensão e Queda de César Birotteau". E talvez o faça com mais mérito do que em "O Pai Goriot", pois aqui não estão em jog

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I'm on page 62 of 320 of Cesar Birotteau: Presently besieged with a massive head cold; found the sinuous digressions of Marias too much for such a debility. My hero Balzac hasn't let me down. I read for the better part of a hour at the pharmacy and the clerk asked about the novel as I was pay

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