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Contes Choisis Faith G. Harper Her first engagement was aBy: Honor de Balzac Published by Courier Corporation, 1999 07 02 Considered a founder of the realistic school of fiction, prolific French novelist Honor de Balzac (17991850) wrote in meticulous detail, depicting ordinary and undistinguished lives in tales that nevertheless abounded in melodramatic plots and violent passions. This convenient dual language volume includes six of Balzac's most highly regarded short stories: "An Episode During the