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Not exactly what I would have expected from one of the fathers of Realism. Ursule Mirouet is part of of Balzac's Scenes from a Provincial Life, and the story seemed, for about half of the book or more, to unfold predictably enough. A good as gold (and beautiful) girl raised by her benevolent (but aged) godfather in a small French town teaming with petty jealousies. It's the late 1820s, and the shadow of the Revolution and Napoleon still haunt the land. The godfather (and physician) was a part of
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Oct 13, 2013
Dana Arbelaez
marked it as to-read
