Excerpt from The Splendors and Miseries of Courtesans The first idea of the human comedy came to me like a dream, an impossible project which I wel comed and th

Excerpt from Scenes of Parisian Life, Vol. 1: Splendors and Miseries In giving the title of the human comedy to a work in which I have been engaged for nearly t

This book is a novel by the French writer Honore de Balzac, first published in 1838. The novel explores the lives of several courtesans in Paris in the early 19

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