Introduction to the Preliminary courses - Years 11 and 12

For an example of the beauty of the coins, see the reproductions on the cover of Morrisson, Barrandon, Cécile Morrisson, Or du Brésil, identified earlier in note 12. In Balzac’s famous novel, Eugénie Grandet, an archetypical miser, Félix Grandet, maintained a custom of giving one such coin to his daughter as a gift on each of her birthdays. ................
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