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A character guide
La Cousine Bette
Honoré de Balzac
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A character guide
La Peau de chagrin
Honoré de Balzac
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A character guide
La Peste
Albert Camus
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A character guide
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme
Molière
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A character guide
Le Comte de Monte-Cristo
Alexandre Dumas, avec Auguste Maquet
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A character guide
Le Dernier Jour d’un condamné
Victor Hugo
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A character guide
Le Horla
Guy de Maupassant
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A character guide
Le Misanthrope
Molière
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A character guide
Le Père Goriot
Honoré de Balzac
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A character guide
Le Petit Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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