Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau by Honoré de Balzac

Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau

La Comédie Humaine #39

Honoré de Balzac with Katharine Prescott Wormeley (Translator)

266 pages first pub 1837 (editions)

fiction classics mysterious slow-paced
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Excerpt: ...to maintain empire over themselves. Thus Madame Rabourdin, Madame Jules, and Mademoiselle de Fontaine, who had expected much amusement from the ball of their perfumer, were detached from the background of the bourgeoisie about them by ...

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