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    Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes, translated variously as The Splendors and Miseries of Courtesans, A Harlot High and Low, or as Lost Souls, is an...
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    Honoré de Balzac described the bridge in Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes as follows: [...] the Pont des Arts, the most favorable place in Paris to...
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    The French novelist Balzac wrote about a courtesan in his Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes (1838–47). Émile Zola likewise wrote a novel, Nana (1880)...
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    littéraires et artistiques. Retrieved 14 January 2022. "La Cousine Bette". 1846, Manz. Retrieved 14 January 2022. "Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes, vol...
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    Paris, 1839) Eve and David (Ève et David, 1843) Splendors and Miseries of Courtesans (Splendeurs et Misères des courtisanes, 1847, a.k.a. A Harlot High and...
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    sequel, Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes (published in parts from 1838 to 1847). Illusions perdues and Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes form part...
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    and in Illusions perdues (Lost illusions, 1837–1843) and Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes (Scenes from a Courtesan's Life, 1838–1844), the sequel...
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    Bonfons who was president of the court of first instance, and the des Grassins son, Adolphe des Grassins. The townspeople take a lively interest in the competition...
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    Sue's The Mysteries of Paris (1843) and Honoré de Balzac's Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes (1838-1847). The 1848 French novel by Alexandre Dumas fils...
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    render a quality feuilleton were unsuccessful. Even though Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes ("A Harlot High and Low"), published in segments from 1838...
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    Gaston Bussière (category École des Beaux-Arts alumni)
    authors. He illustrated Honoré de Balzac's Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes published in 1897, Émaux et camées, written by Théophile Gautier, as well...
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    discussed. 18?? – Autre Etude de Femme (1842) – 1824–1830 – Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes (1838–1847) – Rastignac appears at the start (on Lucien's...
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  • novel series Esther Van Gobseck, a character in the novel Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes Esther (1916 film), a silent film Esther (1986 film), an...
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    Coralie, heroine of Illusions perdues, Esther, heroine of Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes and in Le Père Goriot. Balzac also included lorettes in...
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    Balzacs' descriptions of women (Esther, the fallen angel in Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes, looks like an angel and ends her life in a kind of angelic...
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    in the novel Le Père Goriot, then in Illusions perdues, Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes (as the main character), La Cousine Bette, Le Contrat de...
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    cream is pressed. Plombières ice cream is mentioned in Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes, published in 1844 by Honoré de Balzac. Plombières should...
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    art are contrasted with those of money. As Balzac says in Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes, “la Charte ( Charter of 1814 ) a proclamé le règne de l’argent...
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    Saint-Sulpice, where Manon convinces des Grieux to run away with her once more. Abbé Herrera from Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes by Honoré de Balzac celebrated...
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    characters in Honoré de Balzac's Illusions perdues and Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes" Thénardier (fictional character in Victor Hugo's Les Misérables)...
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    notably cited in Le Cabinet des Antiques, La Muse du département, Illusions perdues, Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes, as well as in other works....
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    Many critics of the time, though, were positive: a review in Le Journal des femmes proclaimed that Balzac's eye "penetrates everywhere, like a cunning...
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    Fouché, was depicted by the Legitimist writer Balzac in Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes. The strength of the opposition led the Prince Royal to...
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    death. In Balzac's Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes, she is the femme fatale or belle juive. In Joseph Méry's 1854 novel Raphaël et la Fornarine, Raphael...
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  • English translations of notable Latin phrases, such as veni vidi vici and et cetera. Some of the phrases are themselves translations of Greek phrases,...
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  • Goriot in 1835, the two-volume Illusions perdues in 1843, Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes in 1847, Le Cousin Pons (1847) and La Cousine Bette (1848)...
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    "Sarrasine de Balzac ou l'archéologie du moi moderne," La Plume et la pierre : l'écrivain et le modèle archéologique au XIXe siècle, Nîmes, Champ Social,...
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  • success during the 1970s with based-on-novel-TV-series Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes. She made a comeback as Claude Jade's lesbian love Gloria...
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    must perforce consign its desires to the depths of its own heart; or of a miser enjoying in imagination all the pleasures that his money could procure for...
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    Jacques Cœur, des Médici, des Ango de Dieppe, des Auffredi de La Rochelle, des Fugger, des Tiepolo, des Corner ..." Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes...
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