Murger

Murger drew on themes that echoed from the Paris of Balzac's Illusions perdues (first part published in 1837), and Balzac's imagination stretched back to the ancien régime, where it all began.

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"Throw away the pencil, Murger; you will never make a painter."

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This society made Murger more than ever ambitious; a secret instinct told him that the pen was the arm with which he would win fame and fortune.

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The "Revue des Deux Mondes" begged Murger to write for its pages.

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So when the rumor flew over Paris, Murger is sick!

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He was successful, and Murger labored to acquire bread and reputation by his prose-compositions.

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He pressed Murger to abandon poetry and take to prose.

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The day of the second performance of the piece Murger went to see his father.

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-- Murger is dead! it raised the greatest surprise.

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As eight dollars, -- less by a great deal than an ordinary servant earns by sweeping rooms and washing dishes, besides being fed and lodged, -- which Count Tolstoy gave his secretary, was not enough to enable Murger to live, he tried to add something to his income by his pen.

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