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“There are a lot of Balzac novels but César Birotteau is the only one I know of that directly addresses our topic. Birotteau is everything you might want in a bourgeois hero: vain and puffed up and almost absurdly proud of his success in the perfume game. Then he gets swept up in what we can call ‘the speculative mania.’ Balzac seems to appreciate him with a kind of wry but affectionate irony. I have known bankruptcy lawyers who think of their clients in pretty much the same way.” Read more...
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