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A Start in Life: La Comédie Humaine: Un début dans la Vie

A Start in Life: La Comédie Humaine: Un début dans la Vie

Wormeley, Katharine Prescott
De Balzac, Honore

Paperback

Classic FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 198185276X
ISBN13: 9781981852765
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Dec 18 2017
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.23 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
One of the coach operators on the Paris to l'Isle-Adam route is Pierrotin, a forty-year-old family man. He uses The Silver Lion Inn as his Paris base, overpacks his coach and flagrantly violates travel regulations but is much beloved by his loyal regulars. It is one Saturday in the fall of 1822 and Pierrotin is complaining that he only has four passengers and no parcels booked on this fine day. He is thrilled when a servant asks him to hold a place for his master, the Comte de Serizy. Pierrotin carries a lot of parcels for the Count's estate manager, Moreau, and is always generously tipped. The servant emphasizes that the Count wishes to travel incognito...

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