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Un début dans la vie

On one such trip from Paris, Comte Hugret de Sérizy, a senator and wealthy aristocrat, is travelling incognito in order to investigate reports that Monsieur Moreau, the steward of his country estate at Presles, is being less than honest in his dealings on the count's behalf with a neighbouring landowner Margueron, a piece of whose land the count wishes to buy.

The Comte de Sérizy, before his death, obtained for him the collectorship at Pontoise.

Put on half-pay, Oscar obtains the post of collector for Beaumont-sur-Oise.

Balzac wrote Un début dans la vie during one of his many visits to the commune of L'Isle-Adam in Val-d'Oise, a few kilometres north of Paris.



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