Balzac, Honoré de,  1799-1850 <br/><br/>
Pierre Grassou 

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<br/><br/> Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Grassou  Release date is 2005-06-27 
<br/><br/>Produced by John Bickers, Dagny, and David Widger  Produced by John Bickers, Dagny, and David Widger 
<br/><br/> "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. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>French fiction -- Translations into English 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PQ