Small bourgeois. Dark business

Honore de Balzac, undoubtedly, is one of the best French novelists of the 19th century, who left behind a huge literary heritage, in which he captured the history of a whole society. In his “human comedy”, including about a hundred works, a talented master created a grand gallery of images - at least two thousand representatives of various classes. Among them are sketches from
Parisian life “Small bourgeois” about the modern tartuf, which is not a name for a soul, rubs into a rich family and plays the role of a democrat and philanthropist, and the political study “The Dark Business”, about which Balzac himself said “I wanted to portray a political
The police in her clash with private life, show the whole abomination of her actions. The conflict depicted in the novel between the-aristocrats, supporters of the Bourbon dynasty, and the government of Napoleon I I. is of great importance