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Handsome would-be poet Lucien Chardon is poor and naive, but highly ambitious. Failing to make his name in his dull provincial hometown, he is taken up by a patroness, the captivating married woman Madame de Bargeton, and prepares to forge his way in the glamorous beau monde of Paris. But... read more

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In 1824, at last Opera ball, a number of maskers were taken with the good looks of a young man walking about the corridors and the crush-room, with the air of somebody waiting for a woman kept at home by unforeseen circumstances.

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  1. Honoré de Balzac (Author)
 

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