02334cam a22003253u 4500 40491 UtSlPG 20260610133927.0 m cr n 260607r2012||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 PQ Du Boisgobey, Fortuné, 1821-1891 Le billet rouge. English The Red Lottery Ticket Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2012 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Release date is 2012-08-12 Produced by Robert Cicconetti, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) "The Red Lottery Ticket" by Fortuné Du Boisgobey is a novel written in the late 19th century. The story unfolds in Paris, focusing on two young men, George Caumont and Adhémar de Puymirol, who are aspiring to marry wealthy women to secure their futures. As the plot develops, themes of ambition, social status, and romantic entanglements are explored, all against the backdrop of Parisian society in the springtime. The opening of the book introduces George Caumont and Adhémar de Puymirol as they ride together in a cab across a famous Parisian bridge. Their light conversation reveals their ambitions, desire for wealth, and the constraints posed by their respective familial expectations. They soon encounter a mysterious event involving a bearded man who drops a pocket-book into their cab, setting in motion a series of discoveries that involve lottery tickets and letters from unknown correspondents—suggesting secrets and potential danger. As the two friends attend a lunch, the setup portrays them in a society ripe with intrigue, alluding to future developments that will test their ambitions and loyalties in the midst of wealth and deception. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Original publication data not identified Fiction Detective and mystery stories https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40491 81330 81330