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Artists and the law don’t always get along.
French author Honoré de Balzac spent three miserable years at a law firm where he was repulsed by having to grease “the oily wheels of every fortune, the hideous wrangling of heirs over corpses not yet cold”.
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Original URL: https://www.afr.com/life-and-luxury/arts-and-culture/how-a-law-firm-shaped-an-award-winning-poet-s-style-20240913-p5kago
