TY  - BOOK
AU  - Balzac,Honoré de
AU  - Wormeley,Katharine Prescott
TI  - The Illustrious Gaudissart
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/L%27illustre_Gaudissart; Release date is 1998-09-01; Produced by John Bickers, and Dagny, and David Widger; Original publication data not identified
N2  - "The Illustrious Gaudissart" by Honoré de Balzac is a short story published in 1833. Felix Gaudissart, a charismatic Parisian traveling salesman, ventures into the Touraine region to sell insurance and newspaper subscriptions. When he encounters resistance from locals, one man plays a cruel practical joke by directing him to an insane neighbor. What follows is a comedy of misunderstandings, deception, and unexpected confrontations that test Gaudissart's legendary salesmanship and cunning. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1474
ER  -