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Excerpt from The Deputy for Arcis and the Middle Class, Vol. 2 The least known of Balzac's works is undoubtedly Les Petits Bourgeois, it was not published until 1854, more than three years after his death, being the' last, with the ex ception of a few minor pieces, to reach the public. It is believed that Charles Rabou - who finished Le Depute d'arcis - completed this. Much of it seems quite foreign to Balzac's style, particularly the often long drawn-out dia lognes; much of which must be that of another hand. Then the abrupt breaks, though Balzac was not by any means free from this vice, give a further tendency to this opinion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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