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A Harlot High And Low

Honoré de Balzac

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1839
Originally in
Originally in French
Pages
Pages 580

Lucien de Rubempré rises through Paris on money supplied by an escaped convict disguised as a priest, and the courtesan who loves him is sold to a banker to pay for it.

Happy love is the divine unction of women; it makes them all as lofty as empresses.
A Harlot High And Low, Honoré de Balzac

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