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    Gaudissart II
    Gaudissart II
    Gaudissart II
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    Gaudissart II

    By Honoré de Balzac

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    "Gaudissart II" by Honoré de Balzac
    In this very short story, the owner of a Parisian shop sells a cheap shawl at an inflated price to a wealthy Englishwoman by pretending that it used to be owned by the Empress Joséphine. The Parisian salesmen in the story are compared to both the fictitious Felix Gaudissart who appears in Balzac's other stories, and the real-life politician Talleyrand for their cunning.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateDec 16, 2019
    ISBN4064066195922
    Gaudissart II
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    Honoré de Balzac

    Honoré de Balzac (Tours, 1799-París, 1850), el novelista francés más relevante de la primera mitad del siglo XIX y uno de los grandes escritores de todos los tiempos, fue autor de una portentosa y vasta obra literaria, cuyo núcleo central, la Comedia humana, a la que pertenece Eugenia Grandet, no tiene parangón en ninguna otra época anterior o posterior.

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      Gaudissart II - Honoré de Balzac

      Honoré de Balzac

      Gaudissart II

      Published by Good Press, 2019

      goodpress@okpublishing.info

      EAN 4064066195922

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      To know how to sell, to be able to sell, and to sell. People generally do not suspect how much of the stateliness of Paris is due to these three aspects of the same problem. The brilliant display of shops as rich as the salons of the noblesse before 1789; the splendors of cafes which eclipse, and easily eclipse, the Versailles of our day; the shop-window illusions, new every morning, nightly destroyed; the grace and elegance of the young men that come in contact with fair customers; the piquant faces and costumes of young damsels, who cannot fail to attract the masculine customer; and (and this especially of late) the length, the vast spaces, the Babylonish luxury of galleries where shopkeepers acquire a monopoly of the trade in various articles by bringing them all together—all this is as nothing. Everything, so far, has been done to appeal to a single

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