Splendor and Misery of Courtesans

In the huge cycle of Onor de Balzak "Human comedy" Book "Glitter and Poverty Kurtisanok" occupies a special place. The chapters of this brilliant novel with a tense intrigue, almost a detective land and a large number of actors printed in Paris newspapers for ten years. As a result, there was a merciless-realistic portrait of Paris on the eve of the July 1830 revolution, with its brilliant balas and dirty, barely illuminated by beasts, streets and soldiers and sales of women, rovists and young ambitions, aristocrats, bankers, policemen, challenges. In this city, everything, even love and virtue, and the morality of those whom they call the cream of society are little differed from the criticism of the criminal world. The lyrical line of the novel is associated with the transformation of the fatal beauty of the curtains who loved the ambitious poet, and anticipates the main theme of the ladies with Camellia A. Dyuma-Son