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Samanon
A sinister second-hand bookseller and moneylender in Paris.
minor
First appearance: part ii a distinguished provincial at paris
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- Other
Character groups
- Parisian Journalists and Publishers
- Angoulême Printers and Rivals
- Angoulême Minor Nobility
- Miscellaneous Supporting Characters
- Parisian Booksellers and Moneylenders
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This excerpt marks the dramatic climax because it reveals the first major psychological reversal in Lucien and…
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