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100 1 _aDu Boisgobey, Fortuné,
_d1821-1891
240 1 3 _aLe billet rouge. English
245 1 4 _aThe Red Lottery Ticket
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2012
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2012-08-12
508 _aProduced 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.)
520 _a"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.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aFiction
653 _aDetective and mystery stories
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40491
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