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At the Sign of the Cat and Racket

Honoré de Balzac

Translator Clara Bell

Publisher: Hawthorne Classics

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Summary

At the Sign of the Cat and Racket is a novella by Honoré de Balzac, first published in 1830. It is the first work in the Scènes de la vie privée, a selection of writings which make up the first volume of Balzac's La Comédie humaine. It tells the story of the relationship between the lofty artist Théodore de Sommervieux and Augustine Guillaume, the down-to-earth daughter of a cloth merchant.
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