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"Petro Goriot" is a novel written by the French writer Balzac and published in 1834. The story tells the story of the protagonist Goriot, a flour merchant who started his career during the French Revolution. He lost his wife in middle age. He devoted all his love to his two daughters. In order to let them squeeze into the upper class, he gave them a good education since childhood and gave them a dowry of 800,000 francs each when they got married. However, his two daughters lived a dissolute life and spent money like water. His love was easily defeated by the principle of money supremacy.
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