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    Old Goriot

    Old Goriot

    Honoré de Balzac

    3.75 (4)

    Madame Vauquer (<i>nee</i> De Conflans) is an elderly person who for the past forty years has kept a lodging house in the Rue Neuve-Sainte-Genevieve, in the district that lies between the Latin Quarter and the Faubourg Saint-Marcel.

    #354
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    The Black Sheep

    The Black Sheep

    Honoré de Balzac

    4.0 (2)

    In the year 1792 the townsfolk of Issoudun were fortunate enough to have a doctor of the name of Rouget, who had the reputation of being an extremely wily man.

    #468
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    747
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