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This fine example of the French realist novel contrasts the social progress of an impoverished but ambitious aristocrat with the tale of a father, whose obsessive love for his daughters leads to his personal and financial ruin.
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MADAME VAUQUER, nee de Conflans, is an old lady who for forty years has kept a second-class boardinghouse in Paris, - a pension bourgeoise, - in the Rue Neuve Sainte-Genevieve, between the Latin quarter and the faubourg Saint-Marceau.
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