The Black Sheep
by Honoré de Balzac
339 pages· 1976· ISBN 9780140442373
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Formerly an aide-de-camp to Napoleon but now without prospects, Phillippe Bridau and his younger brother Joseph, a shiftless artist, become entangled in a struggle to recover the family inheritance in a world where "to be without money is to be without power."
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