Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau

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Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau is by Honoré de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley, in parts headed Cesar at His Apogee and Cesar Grappling with Misfortune. The wife of Monsieur Cesar Birotteau, a perfumer established near the Place Vendome, is startled from her sleep by a frightful dream in which she sees her double.

Madame Rabourdin, Madame Jules, and Mademoiselle de Fontaine, who had expected much amusement from the ball of their perfumer, are detached from the background of the bourgeoisie about them. Popinot would never have transacted the smallest business with him, and du Tillet’s very presence was odious to his feelings; the banker was now enriched through the forced spoliation of his former master.

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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.