# Endnotes explained — Modeste Mignon

> Chapter companion for Modeste Mignon by Honoré de Balzac.

## What happens

This chapter contains only endnotes referencing an obscure clerk and the phrase 'Gold and iron.'

## Key lines

> The obscure clerk.

A reference to a minor, unnamed clerk.

_Endnote 1_

> Gold and iron.

A reference to wealth and strength or perhaps contrasting materials.

_Endnote 2_

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