So Balzac's father added the "de". It was invented not inherited. Actually it the author himself, not his bourgeois father.Such utility is brought to bear in the two novels Lost Illusions and A Harlot High and Low. Both chronicle the verve of self-creation, first in Lost Illusions in a literary/journalistic context and later in this novel with simple grift. The entire novel is serial cons against the Church, society, the bourgeois and finally the Courts. I obviously didn't swallow this novel whole. This approach necessitated ongoing rereading to reorient. I'd like to think this enriched the experience.
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