La Peau de chagrin
This storm of publicity caused a flurry of activity as readers around France scrambled to obtain the novel. Balzac's friend and "La Caricature" editor Charles Philipon wrote to the author one week after publication: "there is no getting hold of "La Peau de chagrin". Grandville had to stop everything to read it, because the librarian sent round every half-hour to ask if he had finished." Friends near and far wrote to Balzac indicating their similar difficulties in locating copies. The second edition was released one month later, and it was followed by parodies and derivative works from other writers. Balzac's friend Théophile Gautier included a comical homage in his 1833 story collection "Les Jeunes-France" when, during a recreation of the feast from Balzac's novel, a character says: "This is the point at which I'm supposed to pour wine down my waistcoat ... It says so in black and white on page 171 of "La Peau de chagrin" ... And this is where I have to toss a 100-sou coin in the air to see whether or not there's a God."