Pierre Grassou by Honoré de Balzac
"Pierre Grassou" by Honoré de Balzac is a short story published in 1839. It follows a mediocre painter who survives by creating imitative works that an art dealer sells as genuine masterpieces to wealthy bourgeois clients. When Pierre meets a prosperous bottle-dealer who mistakes him for a grand master, an unexpected opportunity arises. This satirical tale explores artistic mediocrity, bourgeois pretension, and the gap between commercial success and true artistic recognition in
nineteenth-century French society. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850 |
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| Translator | Wormeley, Katharine Prescott, 1830-1908 |
| Title | Pierre Grassou |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Grassou |
| Credits | Produced by John Bickers, Dagny, and David Widger |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 69.6 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | French fiction -- Translations into English |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 1230 |
| Release Date | Jun 27, 2005 |
| Most Recently Updated | Apr 4, 2013 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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