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Pierre Grassou

by Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850)

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  • Reading level: 8th & 9th grade

"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.

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  • French fiction · Translations into English

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PIERRE GRASSOU

By Honore De Balzac

Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley

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This free edition of Pierre Grassou by Honoré de Balzac comes from Project Gutenberg eBook #1230, released 2005-06-27. It is in the public domain in the United States, so you can read it here in full at no cost, on any phone, tablet or computer. Genre: Novels, French Literature, Art.

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