Catalogue d'une belle et importante réunion de objets d'art et de curiosité, belles et anciennes porcelaines de la Chine et du Japon ... belles tapisseries ... étoffes anciennes, beau tapis ou portière brodé en soie d'environ ... dont la vente aura lieu Hotel Drouot ... les lundi 11 et mardi 12 décembre 1876 ... par le ministère de Me Charles Pillet, commissaire-priseur ... assisté de M. Charles Mannheim, expert ...
Catalogue d'une belle et importante réunion de objets d'art et de curiosité, belles et anciennes porcelaines de la Chine et du Japon ... belles tapisseries ... étoffes anciennes, beau tapis ou portière brodé en soie d'environ ... dont la vente aura lieu Hotel Drouot ... les lundi 11 et mardi 12 décembre 1876 ... par le ministère de Me Charles Pillet, commissaire-priseur ... assisté de M. Charles Mannheim, expert ...

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Esther Happy
Esther Happy

Author: Honoré de Balzac

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2021-04-10

Total Pages: 143

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"Esther Happy" is one of the four parts of the serial novel, "The Splendors and Miseries of Courtesans (also known as, "A Harlot High and Low,") a novel by French novelist Honoré de Balzac. Lucien de Rubempré and Carlos Herrera (Vautrin) have made a pact, in which Lucien will arrive at success in Paris if he agrees to follow Vautrin's instructions blindly. Esther van Gobseck throws a wrench into Vautrin's best-laid plans, however, because Lucien falls in love with her and she with him. One night, however, the incredibly rich banker Baron de Nucingen spots Esther and falls deeply in love with her. When Vautrin realizes that Nucingen's obsession is with Esther, he decides to use her power as a tool to help advance Lucien by extrapolating the maximum amount of money from the Baron as possible. Something that will result in a series of tragic results...