# The Wrong Side of Paris

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- Book: [The Wrong Side of Paris](https://www.bookquiver.com/honore-de-balzac/the-wrong-side-of-paris) ([The Wrong Side of Paris.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/honore-de-balzac/the-wrong-side-of-paris.md))
- Authors: [Honoré de Balzac](https://www.bookquiver.com/honore-de-balzac), [Jordan Stump](https://www.bookquiver.com/jordan-stump), [Adam Gopnik](https://www.bookquiver.com/adam-gopnik)
- Publisher: modern_library
- ISBN: 978-08-1296-675-6
- Pages: 272
- Published: 2005-04-12
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The Wrong Side of Paris, the final novel in Balzac’s The Human Comedy, is the compelling story of Godefroid, an abject failure at thirty, who seeks refuge from materialism by moving into a monastery-like...