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Translated into English titled "The Ladies Paradise". BBC did a series on Masterpiece Theater.The novel tells the story of Denise Baudu, a 20-year-old woman who comes to Paris with her younger brothers and begins working as a saleswoman at the department store Au Bonheur des Dames. You read about the inner workings of the store from the employees' perspective, including the 13-hour workdays, and the bare lodgings for the female staff. Many of the conflicts in the novel spring from each employee's struggle for advancement and the malicious infighting and gossip among the staff.Denise's story is played against the career of Octave Mouret, the owner of Au Bonheur des Dames, whose retail innovations and store expansions threaten the existence of all the neighborhood shops. There's also a love story.
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Department stores, Fiction, French fiction, Literature, Seduction, Translations into Russian, Women sales personnel, Sales personnel, History, Social conditions, Littérature française, Étude et enseignement, Au bonheur des dames (Zola, Émile), Fiction, historical, Paris (france), fiction, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, generalShowing 9 featured editions. View all 55 editions?
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Au bonheur des dames : Commentaires du roman
April 18, 2002, Hatier
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2218740702 9782218740701
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Au Bonheur Des Dames (World Classics)
January 1999, Distribooks
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2877142078 9782877142076
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Au Bonheur DES Dames
November 12, 1999, Editions Flammarion
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2080710869 9782080710864
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The Ladies' Paradise
December 10, 1998, Oxford University Press, USA
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0192836021 9780192836021
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Au Bonheur Des Dames
January 1, 1980, Livre de Poche
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2070409309 9782070409303
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"DENISE had come on foot from the Gare Saint-Lazare."
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