Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau
Honoré de Balzac Translator · English
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Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau
Honoré de Balzac Translator · English
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I During winter nights noise never ceases in the Rue Saint-Honore except for a short interval. Kitchen-gardeners carrying their produce to market continue the stir of carriages returning from theatres and balls. Near the middle of this sustained pause in the grand symphony of Parisian uproar, which occurs about one o’clock in the morning, the wife of Monsieur Cesar Birotteau, a perfumer established near the Place Vendome, was startled from
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