TY  - BOOK
AU  - Balzac,Honoré de
AU  - Waring,James
TI  - The Firm of Nucingen
AV  - PQ 
PY  - 1998///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - French fiction -- Translations into English
N1  - 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; Original publication data not identified
N2  - "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.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1294
ER  -