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At the Sign of the Cat and Racket

Honoré de Balzac · 1830

A novel by Honoré de Balzac, first published in 1830, following a young man who loiters outside an old Paris shop called the Cat and Racket, watching the third-floor window of a girl he adores.

Public domain in the US. From Project Gutenberg.

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