Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau

Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau_ -- one of Balzac's greatest novels. It is the story of Cesar Birotteau, an honest perfumer who is lured into overextending himself. This luring is the work of the unsavory du Tillet, an employee Birotteau fired for embezzlement. The Embezzler works in secret to take revenge. And take it he does: Birotteau falls hard. But all is not lost