The Government Clerks by Honore de Balzac is about Monsieur Rabourdin and his life as head of a ministry in Paris. You will enjoy reading about this peculiar family man. Excerpt: "In Paris, where men of thought and study bear a certain likeness to one another, living as they do in a common center, you must have met with several resembling Monsieur Rabourdin, whose acquaintance we are about to make at a moment when he is head of a bureau in one of our most important ministries…"