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An Historical Mystery; The Gondreville Mystery

By Honoré de Balzac

2020-01-03 01:15:59

This is a historical novel and some of the characters were real: Napoleon, of course, and his police chief Fouche; Talleyrand makes a brief appearance. When Balzac sprinkles his text with these, he writes as if the primary story was also real.
This is a historical novel and some of the characters were real: Napoleon, of course, and his police chief Fouche; Talleyrand makes a brief appearance. When Balzac sprinkles his text with these, he writes as if the primary story was also real. Less

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File size191.109 KB
Print pages250
PublisherPublic Domain Books
Publication date2010-01-01
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-0554052212
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Honoré de Balzac
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Honoré de Balzac was a nineteenth-century French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Comédie humaine, which presents a pan...

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