Cousin Pons: An Old Collector Hunted for His Treasures
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 57 full-page plates by Édouard Manet, Paul Baudoüin and Gustave Caillebotte. An old musician with no money and an unerring eye has quietly assembled one of the great private collections in Paris, and his relations, his concierge and a dealer all work out what it is worth some time before he does. Balzac wrote it in his last working year, exhausted and in debt. It is the cruelest book in the Human Comedy, and the friendship at the center of it is the tenderest thing he ever put on paper. Fifty-seven plates, from Daumier to Manet, follow the collectors, dealers and quiet rooms of the Paris Balzac knew.
Complete and unabridged, with 57 full-page plates by Édouard Manet, Paul Baudoüin and Gustave Caillebotte. An old musician with no money and an unerring eye has quietly assembled one of the great private collections in Paris, and his relations, his concierge and a dealer all work out what it is w...
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Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) was a French novelist and playwright who worked in Paris. He is known for his series of interlinked novels and stories, La Comédie Humaine, which includes Father Goriot, Eugénie Grandet, The Magic Skin, and The Rise and Fall of César Birotteau. His fiction examines French society across the Restoration and the July Monarchy.
Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) was a French novelist and playwright who worked in Paris. He is known for his series of interlinked novels and stories, La Comédie Humaine, which includes Father Goriot, Eugénie Grandet, The Magic Skin, and The Rise and Fall of César Birotteau. His fiction examines Fr...
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