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Maulde and Renon published a Picture of the Great City, which was edited by Marc Fournier, the present manager of the Port-Saint-Martin theatre. "One evening Balzac entered the publishers' office and said: "'Our agreement, gentlemen, was that I should be paid for my Monograph on the Parisian Press at the rate of five hundred francs a page. "'That is so, they replied.
"'That is true, replied M. Renon, 'but I ought to tell you that Alexander Dumas's article, Filles, Lorettes et Courtisanes, also ran to four pages, yet we have not given him a centime more than we have given you. "Balzac started and turned pale. It is evident that he must have been in great financial need before he would have come to make such a request.
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