The Illustrious Gaudissart (Esprios Classics)
Honor? de Balzac
The Illustrious Gaudissart (Esprios Classics)
Honor? de Balzac
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L'illustre Gaudissart (English "The Illustrious Gaudissart") is a short story by Honor? de Balzac. It was published in 1833 and is one of the Sc?nes de la vie de province of La Com?die humaine. Felix Gaudissart is a successful and ambitious travelling salesman, based in Paris. He is nicknamed "The Illustrious Gaudissart". He has previously sold clothing and hats, but at the start of the story he has also taken up selling life insurance and subscriptions to newspapers. The latter include newspapers advocating Saint-Simonianism and republicanism, and he learns the Saint-Simonian doctrine without having any belief in it.
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