Histoire de la grandeur et de la décadence de César Birotteau
Paris, 1837
Abstract
This story is one of Balzac’s “Scenes de la Vie Privee” within the “Comedie Humaine” sequence, and describes the irresistible rise and fall of a perfume merchant in the Rue St Honore. This novel is the French 19th-century’s great poem of bankruptcy–.
