A Man of Business

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A Man of Business is a work by Honoré de Balzac, translated by Clara Bell and Others. The dedication is to Monsieur le Baron James de Rothschild, Banker and Austrian Consul-General at Paris. The word lorette is, the text says, a euphemism invented to describe the status of a personage, or a personage of a status, of which it is awkward to speak.

Desroches and Cardot are described as good fellows grown too gray in the profession not to feel at ease with Bixiou, Lousteau, Nathan, and young La Palferine. Conversation, perfumed with seven cigars, is at first as fantastic as a kid let loose, but finally settles down upon the strategy of the constant war waged in Paris between creditors and debtors. Croizeau is said to have chosen to look upon Denisart as a rival.

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Honoré de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) was a French novelist whose vast Human Comedy, a connected series of novels and stories, is a monument of literary realism and one of the great achievements of world literature.