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    Le Père Goriot (French pronunciation: [lə pɛʁ ɡɔʁjo], "Old Goriot" or "Father Goriot") is an 1835 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac...
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  • Comédie Humaine by Honoré de Balzac, Edited by George Saintsbury, Old Goriot (Le Père Goriot) (1896), Translated by Ellen Marriage, Quote Page 124, J. M. Dent...
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    de Langeais, arguably the most sublime of his novels. Le Père Goriot (Old Father Goriot, 1835) was his next success, in which Balzac transposes the story...
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    ambitious young provincial, Grandet, the miserly domestic tyrant, or Father Goriot, the icon of fatherhood. He gives an important place to financiers and notaries...
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  • Father Goriot (French: Le père Goriot) is a 1945 French historical drama film directed by Robert Vernay and starring Pierre Renoir, Claude Génia and Lise...
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  • Père Goriot is a 1915 silent film based on the 1835 novel of the same name by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac. Directed by Travers Vale...
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  • by Jane Austen (1813) The Red and the Black by Stendhal (1830) Le Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac (1835) David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (1849) Madame...
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    Collin (pronounced [ʒɑk kɔlɛ̃]). He appears in the novels Le Père Goriot (Father Goriot, 1834/35) under the name Vautrin, and in Illusions perdues (Lost...
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    Ferragus by Balzac – description of cemetery 1834: Le Père Goriot by Balzac – the Père Goriot is buried in Père Lachaise 1842: Pere la Chaise, a poem by...
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    students were based on rendering literature such as Honoré de Balzac's Le Père Goriot. Another hypothetical was the staging of the Haitian struggle for independence...
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  • (2002) … Himself Ararat (2002) … Edward Saroyan Le Père Goriot (2004) … Jean-Joachim Goriot Ennemis publics (2005) The Colonel (2006) … Père Rossi Up...
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  • unique to the film. French writer Honoré de Balzac, in his novel Le Père Goriot (1835), wrote that Vautrin told Eugène: "In that case I will make you an...
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    Year Title Role Production Notes 1992 Père Goriot Delphine / Victorine BBC Radio 4 Four-part dramatisation 1994 John Dollar Charlotte BBC Radio 3 Self-adapted...
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    Mallens, The Saint, The Baron, Minder, Tales of the Unexpected, and Père Goriot. In 1966 Ritchie starred in The Saint (S5,E10 'Little Girl Lost') as Mildred...
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  • Geology Auguste Comte – The Positive Philosophy Honoré de Balzac – Père Goriot; Eugenie Grandet Ralph Waldo Emerson – Representative Men; Essays; Journal...
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    francs par mois pour le gloria qu'il prenait au dessert." (Balzac, Le Père Goriot, 1834, I.) "Il aimait le gros cidre, les gigots saignants, les glorias longuement...
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    of novels by Honoré de Balzac. He appears as a main character in Le Père Goriot (1835), and his social advancement in the post-revolutionary French world...
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    Hari, la vraie histoire (2003, TV) Mon fils cet inconnu (2004, TV) Le Père Goriot (2004, TV) Disparition (2005, TV) Nos 18 ans (2008) Robert Zimmermann wundert...
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  • (February 1990), for which he won a Time Out Award, and Honoré de Balzac's Père Goriot (February 1994). In 2012, Beevers appeared as Fray Antonio in the Royal...
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    BBC. June 2004. Retrieved 16 September 2014. "Book at Bedtime: Le Pere Goriot". BBC. 19 September 2005. Retrieved 13 March 2015. "Seven Woman – And –...
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    d'histoire naturelle. French author Honoré de Balzac dedicated his novel Le Père Goriot to Saint-Hilaire, "as a tribute of admiration for his labors and his genius...
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    series) – Tony Lambert 1968 A Man of our Times (TV series) – Roy 1968 Pere Goriot (TV mini-series) – Eugène de Rastignac 1968 Prudence and the Pill – Tony...
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  • there. The Red and the Black (红与黑) Biographies of Celebrities (名人传) Père Goriot and Eugénie Grandet (高老头和欧也妮葛朗台) Bel-Ami (漂亮朋友) People's Literature Publishing...
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  • First Churchills The Gambler Jude the Obscure The Last of the Mohicans Père Goriot The Possessed Resurrection The Six Wives of Henry VIII The Spoils of Poynton...
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    composed in 1939 by Jaromír Weinberger. In Honoré de Balzac's novel Père Goriot, Vautrin states that Eugène de Rastignac's family is living off of chestnuts;...
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    Esther, heroine of Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes and in Le Père Goriot. Balzac also included lorettes in Types de personnages de la Comédie humaine...
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    vocation as professional mourner. In Honoré de Balzac's landmark novel Le Père Goriot (1835), the title character's funeral is attended by two professional mourners...
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    the escaped convict Vautrin whom Balzac had already presented in Le Père Goriot. Herrera takes Lucien under his protection and they drive off to Paris,...
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  • Comédie humaine ("The Human Comedy", a novel cycle which includes Père Goriot, Lost Illusions, and Eugénie Grandet) Alexandre Dumas – The Count of Monte...
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    the figure of Vautrin. This character first appears in the novel Le Père Goriot, then in Illusions perdues, Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes (as the...
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