“What frightful tableaux might present themselves, if one could paint the ideas found in the souls of those who surround the deathbeds? And money is always the mobilizer of the intrigues elaborated, the plans formulated, the conspiracies woven!”

—  Honoré de Balzac, book Gobseck

Quels effroyables tableaux ne présenteraient pas les âmes de ceux qui environnent les lits funèbres, si l&#x27;on pouvait en peindre les idées? Et toujours la fortune est le mobile des intrigues qui s&#x27;élaborent, des plans qui se forment, des trames qui s&#x27;ourdissent! <br class="br"> p. 72, 1921 édition https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31158007362832;view=1up;seq=108 <br class="br">Gobseck (1830)

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