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How a law firm shaped an award-winning poet’s style

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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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Maxim Shanahan is a professional services reporter at the Australian Financial Review. Email Maxim at max.shanahan@nine.com.au
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