SOURCE: Pasco, Allan H. “The Allusive Complex of Balzac's Pierrette.” French Forum 26, no. 3 (fall 2001): 27-42.
In the following essay, Pasco explores the use of allusion in the neglected novel Pierrette, focusing on references in the work to the eighteenth-century novel Paul et Virginie and to the case of Beatrice Cenci, the young girl who was abused by her father, whom she later killed.
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