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Au Bonheur Des Dames
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1883
- Originally in
- Originally in French
- Pages
- Pages 430
A country girl with no money takes a job in a vast new Paris department store that is swallowing every small shop on its street. She rises through it, and the owner who built it to conquer women ends up begging her to marry him.
It was the cathedral of modern commerce, light but strong, the very thing for a nation of customers.
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