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| Edme Restif, the hero, arrives in Paris from the Burgundian countryside. Shortly thereafter, he is welcomed into the household of M Pombelins, a wealthy Parisian bourgeois with two eligible daughters. After a courtship in the making begins with daughter Rose, M. Pomblins explains the decline of bourgeois industriousness and family fortunes, while praising rustic virtues. (Begin with "Le lendemain le jeune R[estif] fut reçu . . . ." |
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