Cesar Birotteau (Penguin Classics)
Honore de Balzac
Cesar Birotteau (Penguin Classics)
Honore de BalzacPenguin Classics·CONTINENTAL EUROPEAN FICTION (FICTIONAL WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)
This story is one of Balzac's "Scenes de la Vie Privee" within the "Comedie Humaine" sequence, and describes the irresistible rise and fall of a perfume merchant in the Rue St Honore. This novel is the French 19th-century's great poem of bankruptcy.