XIR346111 Raphael de Valentin and the shopkeeper, illustration from \'La Peau de Chagrin\', drama adapted from the novel by Honore de Balzac (1799-1850) (engraving) (b/w photo) by French School, (19th century); Musee de la Ville de Paris, Maison de Balzac, Paris, France; (add.info.: adaptation by Louis Judicis; \'The Magic Skin or The Wild Ass\'s Skin\'; written in 1831; promises to fulfill any wish of its owner, shrinking upon the fulfillment of each desire; bourgeois materialism; first performed in Theatre de l\'Ambigu Comique in 1851; cabinet de curiosites; character; Realism;); French, out of copyright.