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    A Study Guide for Honore de Balzac's "Grande Breteche"
    A Study Guide for Honore de Balzac's "Grande Breteche"
    A Study Guide for Honore de Balzac's "Grande Breteche"
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    A Study Guide for Honore de Balzac's "Grande Breteche"

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    A Study Guide for Honore de Balzac's "Grande Breteche," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJul 6, 2016
    ISBN9781535824156
    A Study Guide for Honore de Balzac's "Grande Breteche"

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      A Study Guide for Honore de Balzac's "Grande Breteche" - Gale

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      La Grande Bretèche

      Honore de Balzac

      1842

      Introduction

      Originally published in France in 1842, La Grande Breteche is set in 1830 and describes events that happened in the year 1815 to 1816. This was a turbulent period in France. After the Revolution in 1789, the bourgeoisie, or middle class, struggled to consolidate its power and to retain the political and economic victories it had won over the nobility and the church. By the time of the events of the story, the reign of Napoleon Bonaparte had come and gone, but the old class divisions remained beneath the surface of a new, freer,

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