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The Splendor and Poverty of Courtesans

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In the huge cycle of Honoré de Balzac's "The Human Comedy" book "The Glitter and Poverty of Courtesans" occupies a special place. Chapters of this brilliant novel-feuilleton with a tense intrigue, almost detective plot and a large number of actors were printed in the Paris newspapers for ten years. The result was a ruthlessly realistic portrait of Paris on the eve of the July Revolution in 1830 with its glittering balls and dirty, barely illuminated beggar's nooks, social beauties and corrupt women, moneylenders and young ambitious, aristocrats, bankers, policemen, convicts. In this city everything is for sale, even love and virtue, and the morals of those who are called the cream of society, little different from the mores of the criminal world. The lyrical line of the novel is connected with the transformation of the fatal beauty-courtesan, who fell in love with an ambitious poet, anticipates the main theme of "The Lady of the Camellias" by A. Dumas-son.
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