01642cam a22003133u 45000010005000000030007000050050017000120060002000290070005000310080041000360400011000770410017000880500007001051000036001122450025001482640051001733000047002243360026002713370026002973380036003235000085003595000031004445080053004755200647005285340045011756530048012207000018012688560042012861294UtSlPG20260610133043.0mcr n260607r1998||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPQ1 aBalzac, Honoré de,d1799-185014aThe Firm of Nucingen 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c1998  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Maison_Nucingen  aRelease date is 1998-04-01  aProduced by Dagny, Bonnie Sala, and David Widger  a"The Firm of Nucingen" by Honoré de Balzac is a short story published in 1837. Four journalists gather in a Parisian restaurant and discuss how the once-poor Eugène de Rastignac acquired his fortune. The tale reveals the cunning financial schemes of Baron de Nucingen, a powerful banker who manipulates stock prices and orchestrates fake bankruptcies to enrich himself. Through strategic partnerships with well-connected men like Rastignac, Nucingen builds his empire while some investors prosper and others face ruin. Balzac crafts a sharp satire of nineteenth-century financial speculation. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  nOriginal publication data not identified  aFrench fiction -- Translations into English1 aWaring, James40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1294