01668cam a22003253u 4500 1294 UtSlPG 20260610133043.0 m cr n 260607r1998||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 PQ Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850 The Firm of Nucingen Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 1998 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Maison_Nucingen Release date is 1998-04-01 Produced by Dagny, Bonnie Sala, and David Widger "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.) Original publication data not identified French fiction -- Translations into English Waring, James https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1294 43410 43410