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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Lesser Bourgeoisie by Honore de Balzac: hour the cannon of the Palais-Royal."
"At any rate," said la Peyrade, "what price do you put upon a
publication which has no subscribers, does not pay its expenses, and
has until now been devoted to a purpose totally different from that
you propose for it?"
"Before answering," returned Lousteau, "I shall ask you another
question. Have you any intention of buying it?"
"That's according to circumstances," replied la Peyrade. "Of course I
must see Thuillier; but I may here remark to you that he knows
absolutely nothing about newspaper business. With his rather bourgeois
ideas, the ownership of a newspaper will seem to him a ruinous
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