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" In Balzac's Pere Goriot, the glittering world of the wealthiest Parisians is sharply contrasted with the poverty of those who live at the Maison Vauquer. But this is not a contrast between two unconnected phenomena. Between this house and the most fashionable quarter of Paris, the Faubourg Saint-Germain, stretches a range of invisible but clearly understood steps. The two locations are the opposite ends of the phenomenon known as Parisian society. In Pere Goriot, Balzac exposes the connections between them and the struggles of his characters to gain or retain positions on the rungs of the social ladder.
Of course, thousands of people in Paris were poorer than Madame Vauquer's lodgers. But her house represents the lowest point on the economic scale for those who had, or hope to have..."

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